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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-06-26
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HE Vice President and Mrs.
Marshall will be the guests Of
honor at a dinner party to be
entertained on Saturday
night by Senator and Mrs.
Francis Emory Warren.
Prince Aage in Washington.
Prince Aase of Denmark has arrived
in Washington. and is at the Snore.
ham, He is travelling unoff1cially, and
the entertainments planned in his
honor during his brief stay here will
be unofficial.
The prince, who is the nephew of
the King of Denmark. is past thirty,
and was married several years ago to
the daughter of an Italian diplomat
who was then the Italian minister to
Copenhagen.
The United States minister to
Sweden, Mr.. Ira Nelson Morris, will
come to Washington tomorrow for
short stay.
Col. and Mrs. Frederick w. Herman
were dinner hosts last evening, enter
tanning at their quarters at the WASH
ington barracks Their guests were
Col and Mrs. Harold S. Hetrick, Col.
and Mrs. Edward D. Ardery and Mrs.
Herman's brother-in-law and sister.
Maj. and Mrs. John S. Bragdon. who
are visiting them.
Col. and Mrs. Herman will leave
Washington the first of next week for
their new post at Louisville, Ky.
Lieut.. Col. and Mrs. G. A. Nugent
entertained for Mai. Gen. and Mrs
Frank Coe and Mr.. and Mrs. w. S.
McChesney of st. Louis at the Army
and Navy Club at dinner last evening.
They later took their guests to the
Shubert-Garrick Theater.
Mr.. Lawrence Townsend, accom-
panied by Miss Yvonne Townsend and
Mr.. and Mrs. bingham Townsend,
are leaving today for a ten-day motor
trip through the Adirondacks. They
will later join Mrs. Lawrence Town
send, who has preceded them in order
to open up their house at Scroon
Lake in the Adirondac ks.
Mrs. Anna Muller has left Washing
ton and will sail for France next
week.
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Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1919-12-17
TWO TRAVELLERS CAME BACK
According to Army Captain, Mules Re-
turned From That Dim and
Undiscovered Shore.

The regimental morning report is n
fearsOme document. On it appear all
the changes in status of men and ami
mails for each preceding a hours. 1t
happened in an Ohio regiment once
that two mules fell i'll one night. The
veterinarian gave his. verdict of hope
less, and the captain of the supply
company accordingly made the proper
entry on the morning report: 1.-TWO
mules, from duty to dead"
But under the care of the grizzled
old stable sergeant the mules recov-
cred and next morning the captain
found them alive and kicking. Now,
entries made on the morning report
can never be erased, which made the
situation embarrassing for the cap
tain. However, he was man of re-
source, and the next days report car1
ried the startling entry: Two mules
from dead TO duty"
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1919-12-17
Shrub May Prove Valuable.

Two years before the war, as the
story is told, two German chemists
applied for permission to experiment
with the plant life on a great semi-arid
ranch in central Mexico. Their re-
quest was granted, with the under
standing that they furnish complete
report of their findings, The two
chemists worked feverishly, and chiefly
on squat, odorous shrub called go
bernadora," long reputed to possess
medicinal properties. Suddenly they
disappeared; what they had discover
ed was nevee known. Now, after eN-
periments with this same desert
shrub which they have found In drier
parts of New Mexico chemists OF the
United States department of agricul-
ture believe that they have discovered
another alkaloid to add to the list
which already includes morphine,
quinine and cocaine. Its chemical and
pharmaceutical properties are now IN
der inveStigatiOn.-POpu Mechanics
Magazine.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1919-12-17
NAVY LIBRARY WORTH VISIT
Apartment in States, War and Navy
Building at Warrington Should
Appeal to Tourists.

The navy library, in the state, war
and navy building, is a lovely place 10
soak up atmosphere. Like the build
ing itself, it is thirty-three years old,
When it was built England, France,
Spain and Italy presented the marbles
of pOrphyry, sienna and malachite with
which the walls are paneled. Mexico
sent the pieces of onyx which encrust
the gallery. The round stone over the
door came from the ruins of POmpeii.
The cOnnOisseur in marble who visits
Washington will enjoy a call here.
In the center of the large room, lined
with shelves of weighty tones on ma
val matters, there is a large and inn
portant green-topped table. Around
this table sat the strategic board OF
the Spanish-American war. Here also
the laval advisory board for the great
war made their secret plans and eX-
periments. Edison, Maxim, Miller and
many others conferred over it, with
the windows carefully darkened and a
guard before the door.
There is a quaint side to the library,
too. \ little white-haired lady can be
seen any time, fitting about the
shelves of dark, heavy books, or cut
ting and pasting busily in her corner
by the window. This is Miss Mason,
daughter of Il former secretary of the
navy. She has been in the library
2G years. If you happen in near noon
she may give you cup of tea on one
corner of her desk.
And of all charming places to have
an unexpected cup of tea, with a
sweet little lady, this quiet nook
among the books is recommended.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1919-12-17
Brusa.

Brusa, into which Nritish troops
have entered without opposition, was
the capital Of Bithynia when Trajan
appointed Pliny the Younger to gov
ern the province. 1t was from Brusa,
then Prusa, ut the foot of Mt. Olympus,
that Piny wrote the letters to Trajan
which are among the most interesting
of his vOluminous correspondence. 1t
is said that Brusa owes its existence 20
some scheme of HannibalS, but of the
Roman and Bithynian city hardly any
trace remains, though Brusa boasts of
very fine old MOhammedan mosques.
The city of Asia Minor is situate in
lovely country, rich in fruit trees and
watered by countless springs, and
supports manufacture of silk which
should develop unhindered now that
the lethargy of Turkish rulers no
longer weighs on the city and its In
habitants.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1919-12-17
Surnames,

Surnames began to be used first
among the nobility in 1900.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1919-12-17
HAS GREAT FAITH IN COCONUT
German Who Has Tried 1t Declares
II to Be the Ideal Food for
Sustenance of Man.

One Of the strangest characters in
the world is AuGuste Englehardt, a
young German who lives on the island
of Kabakon, in the German New
Guinea territory. He exists entirely
on the cOcOnut, and sleeps on a bed Of
sand.
Englehardt is n singularly handsome
man of about thirty-fve, possessing
great wealth and a charming person
ality. He is known as the opposite of
the COconut," on account of the doe
trine he teaches that the coconut is
the original food of man, and should
continue TO be so, as all other foods
are responsible for the bad passions
in the heart and mind of man.
The Apostle" claims to have over
800 disciples in America, and now the
war is over he intends to leave his
island home and come back to the old
world and proclaim .his teachings. He
IS also &c ''sun wOrshiper," living en-.
tirely in the open air. and adopting the
simple dress Of the natives, consisting
merely of a '1ava-lava," or lOin cloth,
and when in full dress. that is. when
he receives visitors, this attire is com
pleted by the addition of a wrist watch
and walking stick.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1919-12-17
PROUD OF HER FAMOUS SONS
Massachusetts Has Sant OFT Many
Who Have Done Great 7 hings
in the World.

Not to be too inSistent and greedy,
massachusetts and her "OId Colony
should always file their claims to the
honor of producing men that are do
ing the new work of the world, as
well as celebrating forever the Pill
grim Fathers, writes The listener in
the Boston Transcript. It is no acct
dent, no mere coincidence, that both
the pioneers of transatlantic air trans,
pOrtatiOn should be Massachusetts
men; the first man to navigate an
airShip from America to England was
home was South Hanson, Mass, and
the first engineer to carry the big
street traffic of New York city under
the Hudson river is Clifford NJ. HOl-
land. born at Somerset, Bristol county,
thirty-siX years ago. Both upper air
and subterranean problems have
brought laurelS to boys of the Old Col
ony public schools. To be sure, Com
mander Reads education was COM
pleted at Annapolis Naval academy,
and Mr.. Hollands at Harvard Univer-
sity, where he graduated in 1906. But
there must be something in the stock
and something in the system which
brings it to pass so often that when
great things have been done. or great
things are TO be accomplished, and the
dOer is necessarily forced into the spot.
light Of the press, and his antecedents
are eagerly examined, the little old
significant abbreviation, MASS" is
apt to appear in Connection with some
little town as his birthplace.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1919-12-17
STRAIN TOO GREAT.
Hundreds of DEBORAH Readers Find
Daily Toll a Burden.

The hustle and worry of business
men, ...
The hard work and stopping oil
workmen,
The woman's household cares,
Often weaken the kidneys.
Backache, headache, dizziness,
Kidney troubles, urinary troubles
Frequently follow.
A DEBORAH citizen tells you what
to do.
T. j. Hagen, farmer, Route No. z,
says: Il worked pretty hard on the
farm and l think it brought on kid
ney trouble. My kidneys were weak
and acted irregularly and many times
when stopped over to pick up any
thing sharp pain caught me in the
small of my back and l could hardly
move. One box of Doan's Kidney
Pills, procured from Engbertso1's
Pharmacy, cured me of the attack"
Price Coo at Hll dealers. Don I
simply ask for a kidney remedy-get
Doan's Kidney Pills-the same that
Mr.. Hagen had. Foster-Milburn Co.,
MfgTs., Buffalo, N. Y.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1919-12-17
NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT.

Notice Of the appointment of an
executor of the estate of Edward
Arness, deceased.
Notice is hereby given, that the
subscriber has been duly appointed
executor of the estate of Edward
Arness late of DEBORAH township, in
the county of Winneshiek, state of
Iowa, deceased. testate, and has
taken upon itself that trust by Civ
ing bonds as the law directs. All
persons having demands upon the
estate of the said deceased are re-
CURED to exhibit the same; and per-
sons indebted to said estate are cal
led upon to make payment to
Winneshiek County State Bank,
Executor
Dated at DEBORAH, Iowa, Dec. 8
1919.
WILLETT G NELSON, Attorneys.
51-4.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1919-12-17
OFFICIAL PUBLICATION.
City Council Proceedings, DEBORAH
Iowa, Dec. 3, 1919.

Regular monthly meeting, called to
order by Mayor Bucknell.
All members present except Mr.
Engbretson.
Minutes of previous meeting were
read and approved.
Mr.. Ben Bear appeared before the
council and made statement of the
local fuel conditions.
The resolution of the Finance COM
mittee provided for the payment of
the following claims:
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1919-12-17
What Pewter Is.

Pewter is an alloy of tin and usu-
ally anthony, copper and bismuth for
the best qualities of pewter, and lead
for the inferior kinds. The tin always
preponderates, and the proportion is
largest in the best pewter One hun
dred parts Of tin to eight of anthony,
four Of copper and one of bismuth are
given as the proportions of good ware.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1919-12-17

iNPOll iOl 4NoNClliDCl
was accepted and placed on file.
The superintendent of the water
works was authorized to purchase
appliance for locating covered up
valves and stop boxes.
The council accepted the PROPOSE
ton of Kalman Mattesen & Wood
agreeing to take up and pay off
$20,00000 $50. Sewer outlet bonds
which matured 100000 annually in
1921, 1926, 1881 and 1886 and refnanct
the issuance OF refunding bonds for a
lesser amount and at Az % interest.
The new issue to be payable Sl50000
annually 1921 to 1926 inclusive and
100000 annually 1927 to 1880 in
elusive
The council adjourned to meet
again the evening of Dec. II, 1919.
MARK d. WELLS, City Clerk.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1919-12-17
Sentimental Paradox.

From a Story-"Each hour that they
spent apart only brought them closer
together. Transcript.
Smyrna times., 1919-02-12

know of to sail home from. For five
weeks we had sunshine and believed
all the good things about it, but now
since it has rained so many weeks
lately, we have changed our minds.
Some parts of it are beautiful, but so
many places are squalid houses with
the rubbish pile in the most cOnspic-
uous place.
AS a rule the girls are very pleasant
and strive to please more than Amer
lean girls. l think the girls back
home have been placed more on a ped
estal as something superior and when
he marries one and she comes down
to the level of human being the man
is disappointed The girl over here is
more of a helpmate and not just
something to keep dressed up like a
doll. 1 hope the American girl has
been improved as 1 believe they have
and they could surely learn something
over here. The people are more i'm
pulsive and things are done here which
would be held as morally improper,
but nothing is thought of it here. Yet
1 think we should come home and
marry in our own country.
Longs For An Early Voyage Home.
1 am working all night tonight and
am getting sleepy but am l thinking
of all you dear people back home.
This is the last night of the year. We
usually celebrate at home but do not
know what we will do here. We do
not enter the New Year with very
bright prospects for our early return.
That is the thing we are most inter
ested in now. The inaction after the
war surely CRATES on our nerves and
we almost feel like starting another.
Wishing all of you a Happy New
Year and trusting to be back in the
State in February. l am, Your loving
son, Merrill B. Hutchison.
Smyrna times., 1919-02-12
DELAwAREANs RETURN HOME.
Hon. George Gray Reelected Delaware
Chairman at Atlantic Congress.

Hon. George Gray Reelected Delaware
Chairman at Atlantic Congress.
Delaware delegates including Smyr-
mans, to the Atlantic Congress of the
League to Enfore Peace, that cOnclud-
ed its sessions in New York, Thurs
day, returned Friday evening and Sat
urday, more enthusiastic than ever,
over the need of supplying the moral
force back of the organization. While
there will be no action now, yet the
State organization will be strengthen
ed along lines that are needed to
maintain a virile organization, ready
for whatever action is necessary when
the time arrives. During the congress
the Delaware delegates caucused, and
decided unanimously to retain former
Judge George Gray as the active
chairman of the State organization.
1t was also agreed to place the re-
sponsibility of the activities of each
county upon the executive committee
of the county. 1t was decided that
Chairman Gray should appoint a
finance committee from each county
to arrange for raising the necessary
financial obligations that the State of
Delaware may be called upon to de-
Fray Arrangements are now being
made to have Judge Gray appear be-
fore the Delaware Legislature some
day next week, and present the OBJ
iects of the League to Enforce Peace,
in support of bills now pending at
Dover. Delaware was very well re-
presented at the Congress. There
were upwards of 60 men of all pro-
fessions in attendance, and compared
with other States with larger pOpula-
tions, this representation was very
creditable. Chairman Gray, Secre-
tary Josiah Marvel and DR.. Samuel
Chiles Mitchell were honored by the
congress, being named members of
the platform committee, which is to
arrange for any changes to be made
in the platform if there is any such
improvement considered necessary.
Smyrna times., 1919-02-12

Governor Sproul, of Pennsylvania,
will meet the governors of New Jersey
and Delaware in Philadelphia, Febru-
airy 14th, for the discussion of Della
ware river matters of interest in the
three states, including waterways,
bridges, fisheries and all other propO-
sitions which may arise.
Smyrna times., 1919-02-12

William Dryden, son of George T. L.
Dryden, a Worchester county, Md,
farmer, was thrown from a wagon,
drawn by a runaway mule and killed
Smyrna times., 1919-02-12
Up In the Lines Near Verdun.

In September the boys went up into
the lines near Verdun and fought
fights, but had a soft job back of the
lines, where we could see the obser-
walton balloons brought down and see
the heavy, guns. 1t seems that just
luck had followed me as 1 was sche-
duled to go twice and another man
got the job. The 8Oth has made a
good name for itself and we are proud
to wear our insignia. We wear blue
ridge on our shoulder and now we
have service stripes to show we have
been in this rainy and muddy country
six months.
France is one of the best places I
Smyrna times., 1919-02-12

laughed at in derision by our boys.
Each night these engines are locked
in the roundhouse in order that no one
will run off with them.
Then we spent three weeks in
Aigny-le-Duc, the home of some of the
finest people we have met in all our
travels. We had plenty of water here,
rare thing here in France. The
French people do not seem to use it
much to wash and never to drink and
one morning when asked for some at
breakfast they looked at me as if l
had suddenly lost my reason. One
night we had little banquet with
wine and champagne on the table, but
we had no coffee as the American can
not learn to drink it the way it is
made here.
Then we started our promenade up
to the line. The first night our reg
iment camped in the valley between
two hills. 1t was a sight that 1 will
long remember, how the campfres
were built, as the night was cold. 1
tried to sleep in little ditch, but had
to hunt some heat before morning.
That day we hiked about twenty
eight kilometers and were certainly
tired at the end. A few of US went
up to some barracks and had hunks
for the night. One of the fellows pro-
cured blankets for US. That is a
favor we will never forget, but can
not ever show our appreciation. We
had been given flowers by the girls on
that hike, but it was not so welcome
as blankets.
Smyrna times., 1919-02-12
Slept in a Stable Several Nights.

slept IN StaDle several Nights.
The first night 1 slept in stable
with horses and cattle, in the next
stall, the second, in another stable,
but with good clean straw, the third,
on the floor of a big building that
must have been a brewery, the fourth,
slept on a box car, the fifth, on the
green grass with a beautiful moon
shining down on my face, the sixth, on
the waiting bench of a railway station
and the seventh on the floor of vac
ant house. The night l slept on the
grass was one of the best nights
have ever had, as / was tired. /
woke up at dawn, bathed in some good
cold water and had cantaloupe for
breakfast. One day we rode on top
of car Of freight and had to keep
rubbing the cinders out of our eyes
thrown back by the little engine
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1919-03-06
IN ARAB
PROPHECY
FULFILLED

There is an Arab legend which
[ heard often in the east, that
0t until the Nile flowed into
alestine would the Turk be
lriven from Jerusalen-a pic
turesque way of intimating that
he Turk would stay there for
ever Gas Virgils First Eclogue
4 like prophecy was made, 1000
years ago, of the impossibility O.
he Germans reaching the Ii
gris).
But the Nile now flows into
Palestine, not metaphoricalIy
but literally. | have seen the
liant Kantara, where (under the
direction of a Canadian engin-
9er) the sweet water of the Nile
s filtered and started on its jour
ney through a 12-inch pipe a
cross the desert toward GAIA.
The mound of sand that protects
it is visible a few yards from the
railroad all the way from the
Suez to the edge Of Palestine.
And the Turk has been driven
from Jerusalem by the same for
"es that caused the water of the
Nile to flow into PALESTINE
1ohn H. Finley in Scribner's Mag
azine.
Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1919-03-06
JANUARY
EXPORTS SET
RECORD

january exports exceeded in
value the total for any previous
month in the history of Ameri-
I can commerce, according to a
/ statement issued recently by the
/ Bureau Of Foreign and Domestic
/ Commerce, Department of Com
|merce.
I The export figure announced
/ for January is S623.000.0OO. as
against a total Of 66,00O,0OO
/ for December, and S5O5,O0O.OOO
for January of last year. Only
twice before have exports reach
| ed the S600.000,0O0 mark. Dur
/ ing the seven months of the ifs
| cal year ended with January the
exports totaled S3,798,0OO.OOO.
/ as compared with S3.450,000.O00
for. the corresponding period of
the previous year.
The value Of imports in Janu-
AIRY was $213,OOO,OO0, as COM
pared with S211,000,00O in Dec
.ember and $234,O0O,00O in Janu-
ray, 1918. For the seven months
ended with January imports To-
tailed S1,698, 100000, which is a
slight gain over the $1,634,OO0,-
.000 for the similar period of tho
previous year.
The excess of exports over
imports in January was S41O,-
100000 an impressive total when
it is remembered that the excess
Of exports for the entire fiscal
year 1914, the last normal year.
was only $470,000,O00.
The imports of gold amounted
to $14,000,000 for the seven
months ended with January. a.
gainst S79.O0O,O00 last year. Elk
ports totaled $23, 100000, for the
same period as compared with
S173, 100000 in 1918.
Imports of silver amounted to
$41,000,000 for the seven months
or practically the same as for
the previous year. Exports a.
mounted to 9179,O00,000, as a.
gainst $52,00O,00O for the cor
responding seven months of the
fiscal year 1918.