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Old Manuscripts
PHOTOGRAPHERS have fou

DHoTOGRAPHERS have found that
= they can obtain very different
effects when quartz lamps are used
in place of the more common sources
of light. The reason is simple enough
The quartz allows the ready passing
of the so-called ultraviolet rays OF
light, which will not penetrate glass,
and these in turn produce different
effect from the rest Of the rays.
With colored vases, flowers or
dress goods the effects are equally
surprising and sometimes may lead
to important applications. For In
stance, a French photographer has
found that ink which has faded into
ELIGIBILITY may still be Opaque 20 the
ultraviolet rays. BY photographing
documents on which the ink had
faded he has been able to restore the
legibility. Moreover, the investigator
has found that in some old docu-
ments. dating back to the twelfth
century. his quartz light photographs
showed the original wording, which
had later been changed in a still leg
ible ink. Such a deciphering OF old
manuscripts which heretofore have
not been readable ought to add. great
ly to our knowledge of other days.
In the present, when many old
manuscripts are being discovered.
this process is in iuable.
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make frantic dive for the water
pail and begin to drink ravenously.
"A grain Of common sense is worth
ton of cartridge lead" commented
Old Man Negley. "The executions
postponed. Here" holding up the
knuckle-bone; here's your dumb
rabies Such bones have caused
many a mad dog scare in their time
and made many suffering dog lose
his life by bullet.
Hold on, there!" he interrupted
himself, gently pulling the dog away
from the water. That's enough for
now. Another drink. in a few min
.utes. Too much. after three hot days
thirst, might hurt you. I suspicioned
what was the matter when he said
the rabies came on you all at once.
right after dinner. That isn't the
way of rabies, or any other disease"
But" cried Mrs. Benner, throw
ing her arms around the shaggy neck
of the rescued, trembling dog, "but
don't understand-
Most folks don't" responded Old
Man Negley. That's why SO many
mag dog scares start every year.
There isn't one mad dog to every
thousand mad dog scarers.
"For instance, you'd have sworn
this dog Of yours was. in the last
stages OF dumb rabies, and you'd
have had him shot to put him out
of his misery and to save yourselves
from a bite. Itd be as sensible to
shoot a man who has an liberated
tooth. Only the man can tell you what
ails him and the dog can't
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Aandbh des1eNed 10 vu4n those who
wanted fast travel ~ 1887 ~

made US decide to boat down the
river.
after two days and a night of
moving slowly down this stream we
reached Portobello and boarded a
New York bound steamer.
81 was lashed to a sofa in the
main cabin to keep from rolling off,
for 1t was now March and the boat
rolled and pitched tremendously.
Thin and haggard, we docked at New
York city in mid-March, seventy-five
days after leaving San Francisco.
How good it was to get to regu-
lar things again! The warm, car
peted rooms, the large bath, the
white roses and my d ear violets."
To save his family from ocean
travel and tropical swamp hazards,
Senator John B. wellerlof California,
Fremonts successor, left them at
home.
But 1 can. have, no correspondence
with my family. short df month" )"
he told the Senate, lamenting the
lack of telegraph and fast mall
service between Washington and the
Pacific coast.
Fastest sailing ships the world has
known offered to save California
congressman the loathsome trip
across the isthmus by taking them
around South America. But this trip
took over Ave months.
Central Pacific railroad tracks, be-
ing built from San Francisco, and the
Union Pacific rails, running from the
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at the mouth and the mad dog scare
starts.
"I've talked with doctors who know
about such things. They tell me
there isn't an average Of two cases
of real rabies in any state in the
Union in whole year. They tell me,
too (and I've seen it myself, that a
really rabid dog won't turn out Of
his way to bite people any more
than typhoid paatient will jump out
Of bed to chase his nurse down the
street with an ak.
Hell snap at people in his path,
and he'll snap at the empty air. but
he won't move step out OF his way
to attack.
'In old times they used to say that
If a dog refused to drink 1t was a
sign that he was mad. Ever hear
such idiocy?
"If only we'd learn to use half the
common sense about dogs, that dogs
use in dealing with us what a grand
world this'd be!
"By the way, I've bees Sitten twice
by dogs that were supposed to be
mad, and 1 haven't gone mad from
1t to any extent yet, though that
fake shown up!
"Now then, doggy, one. more drink
for you. Then, while they're warm
ing a little pan of bread and milk for
your dinner, I'll go back and finish
my work on that hedge"
Copyright. 1921
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the good it did him. His powerful
jaws were wide open, nor could he
move them nor lap water with his
swollen tongue
!, For dog must use his jaws as
well as his tongue in drinking, though
few humans realize this. And this
dogs jaws were stretched wide and
immovable.
Old man Negley studied the sufferer
for a moment while Benner went in
doors for his pistol. Then, disre-
garding Mrs. Benner's fearful warn
ings, the old man walked calmly up
to the rabid dog and knelt beside him,
forcing the dogs head upward and
gazing into the wide mouth.
+ X
A SECOND later he thrust one OF his
"A own hands in between the slav-
ering jaws and yanked hard at some
thing. After which he drew forth
in triumph a small knuckle-Aone OF
mutton that had wedged itself at
the point of contact of the big jaws.
far back where the "hinge".is formed,
on the right-hand side.
BoIting his dinner three days
earlier, the st. Bernard had been
chewing this bone when its. knuckle
had become wedged there, prevent
ing him from closing his mouth or
moving his jaws from their wide
open position.
For seventy-two hours the poor
creature had remained thus. suffer-
ing and. helpless to eat or to drink,
,1ofl xA Hpfnk thnn0h -fhA
weather was hot and dry.
AS Dick Benner came out OF the
house with his pistol he saw the dog
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Echo Boards.
TN all probability the most inSenior

IN all probability the most ingenious
of all aids to navigation are the
echo boards. When a dense fog set
ties down along the coast the most
powerful lights are blotted out and
even the bell signals are soon xnuf-
fed. To guide the bewildered navi-
gator at such times an ingenious ar
rangement of boards is built which
will throw back the whistles of pass
ing steamers. The echo boards are
long and wide, with great ear-like
projections at the ends that catch
and echo these salutes. An expert
enced mariner when caught in a fog
in these regions sends out a series
of whistles until one of them is
echoed back to him. when he can
locate the position Of his vessel with
surprising accuracy. One advantage
of the echo boards is that they need
no attendant and are always ION the
job
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old boy" he interrupted him
self. "Only few laps. though"
Eyes. ma,am.". he- continued, "of all
the fool. terrors that spring up from
the fright swamps at the bottom OF
the human brain the mad dog scare
is the silliest.
"a dog gets lost in the street. He
can't find his master. He doubles
back to look fer him. He gallops
around in circles. He's scared.
"His tongue hangs out, most hkeiy.
Maybe he happens to run through a
mud puddle and gets splashed.
Some boys see him and give chase.
They pelt him, maybe. with stones.
He's all confused and terrified.
Some one yells Mad dog"
"When q child gets lost in the
street he just stands and cries. and
all the world rushes up to help him.
When a dog gets lost he runs around
to find his master, and all the world
yells Mad dog!
I THAT'S the end of it. The fool
cry is taken up. A cop comes with
a gun, or the stones find their mark.
A poor, friendly, harmless little dog
is killed. and the crowd breathes free
to think that an awful peril Is
stamped out.
"Or maybe dog is sick and wants
to crawl away. somewhere to hide or
to die. Dogs are. more considerate
than us humans. They try to get out
Of the way and not bother any one
when they're sick.
Folks see him slouchinE down the
road with his tongue out and froth
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of pain and grief and wild rage, too
it was a she-wolf, looking for her
cubs, which hunters had killed that
day.
"A panic swept over me as 1 real
ized Aunt Kitty was the only one in
the room with me. Sight of the
great fire. she had made brought on
new fear. The windows were
near the ground and without shut
ters or curtains. What if the blaze
should serve to guide the wolf?
I'VE hair-pinned shawls over the
windows but by that time mems
voices and sounds of the dogs gave
us sense Of being protected"
Alone on horseback, the delegate
of the territory of Washington. Maj.
Gen. Isaac /. Stevens, used to come.
Over the snow-capped Rockies he
picked his way. Through swift cur
rents he swan. Across prairies he
galloped.
Meals he won with his rife and
fishing rod from the wild VESTS
game supply. Reaching the Mis-
sissippi river he and his steed let
a train bring them the rest of the
way to Washington.
Gold rewarded the Forty-niners
who went by thousands to California,
and volumes have been written of
their hardships. But who has heard
how Californfa's first senators, John
c. Fremont and William NJ. Gwin,
fought back to Washington in 1850
to represent the new state?
Indians were on the warpath.
Cholera was scourging the Great
American Desert" Therefore, Sen
ator Frewpnt would not risk taking
his wife fhd little daughter overland
but decifAd to come to Washington
via Panthna.
The yremonts' and Senator Gwin
boardef a steamer at San Francisco,
Janua$y 1, 1850.
Getting to and from steamers in
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my little girls fever became worse
and her splendid hair was cut close.
X * X x
"To get me across the isthmus
without jarring, the captain Of
a man-of-war, which was in the har-
Dor, prepared a palanquin. This was
a ships cot, swung to two poles. with
a light awning and curtains over a
frame.
1--WE had to have sufficiently
strong party to meet new danger
which had grown up on the isthmus
"a banditti force, which waylaid and
robbed, and sometimes murdered,
passengers.
my men were very proud of my
unique equipage. People f1ocked to
look at it as they would at any other
show. The carriers stopped to ex7
plain it and my condition. The ma
tives at times seemed to be betting
whether I would live to reach the
other side.
e'tAt Gorgena we heard of the re-
cent murder of thirteen persons,
whole party. by the banditti. This
Evening star., 1923-12-02
BY ALBERT PAYsoN TERHUNE.

LID man Negley was trimming
the Shrady hedge, on Vine
street, one morning, when
~ Dick Benner came running
bareheaded- across the street, in evil
dent distress, and hailed him.
"Negley" he exclaimed, we're
just back from the shore ten min
utes ago. We left our big st. Ber-
nard with the maid while we were
gone. He has rabies! He developed
it three days ago, one evening just
after she had fed him. 1t came on
all at once. She sent for the vet.
He said it's a true case of dumb
rabies and the only thing to do is to
shoot him. Will you do it for us?
haven't the heart to. I'll pay you
well. The poor fellow is in awful
agony. I left my wife crying over
him. She thinks the world of that
poor old dog. Hurry, won't your ,
Old man Negley laid down his clip
pers and followed the excited man
across the street to shaded back
yard.
There, securely tied to his kennel
with chain that would have held
an OK, stood or rather crouched
beautiful st. Bernard dog. Just out
Of reach of the chain-in case the
dogs madness should take a turn
toward violence-stood weeping
woman.
The st. Bernard was slumped
weakly against the side Of his ken
mel. His great head was hanging.
Now and then he made a feeble
effort to stick his mouth into a pail
of drinking water. But that was all
Evening star., 1923-12-02

those days Of wharf1ess Pacific ports
was dangerous" Mrs. Fremont wrote.
Sat San Francisco. we had to row
to the steamer. At Mazatlan. Mexico,
the first stop, sailors. after rowing
passengers near land, jumped into
the water and laid their oars in a.
compact bridge from boat to shore.
Each of us took cold from an
imprudent change Of dress at Mazat-
Ian. Fevers soon came on. When
We reached Panama. I was too ex-
hausted to make the land crossing on
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mule back. Senator Fremont was
crippled. The chilling he received
at Mazatlan had brought on rheu-
matte fever in the leg, which had
been frostbitten the winter before.
1--WE were carried down the gang
plank and taken to the house of, Mr..
Stephens, one of the supervisors of
the Panama railroad construction.
Four weeks we lay there. The
steamer which lert East Panama for
New York February. / sailed with
out us. -.
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TIE Savana first steam ship to cross the Atlantic
sailed fr0M SavaNak Ga to pool in Sda4s III 1919

This was clean new sight to
me; about a dozen big stages hung
! onto one machine. and 1T aimed to
start up hill" Crockett wrote.
after a good deal of fuss. we
! moved slowly off. the engine Wheel
| ing as if she had the tizzick. BY
and by she began to take short
| breaths and away we went with a
blue streak after us. The whole
distance was seventeen miles and it
was run in fifty-five minutes
A steamboat took Crockett from
Delaware City to Philadelphia. The
| fast stage" carried him to Pitts
burgh in four days. Here he boarded
an Ohio river boat. After changing
boats at Cincinnati, Ohio, and Louis
! Vile. KY, he landed at Mills Point,
Tenn. His son, William, met him
with a sulky. in which they drove
thirty-five miles to the Crockett
home.
Maintenance of schedules apparent
ly meant little to river boat captains
then, for Crockett wrote that Capt.
Stone held his boat and it's other
passengers at Pittsburgh one day
after starting time to wait for the
representative.
Wheeling. Ohio, city fathers asked
| the \captain to steam back up the
river several miles and enter the
salute to Crockett. The captain
promptly acquiesced.
Representative Crockett reached
his Tennessee home July %, twenty
days after leaving Washington. One
can go from Washington, D. c., to
Toxic, Japan, in that time now.
Covered wagons became congress
sional Carriages" in 1846, when Iowa
was admitted to the Union. These
rolling ships of the desert" were the
only means of reaching Washington
available to Iowa's first senator's
Augustus c. Dodge and George w.
.. Jones-Cassius c. Dowell, present
representative from Des Moines,
Iowa, said.
Past my mothers early home.
oxen drew those large canvas-topped
wagons. Senators plodded along be-
side their teams, whip in one hand
and rifle in the other. Indians.
bears and snakes were near, and
forts were far apart" Representative
Dowell said.
"Few were the ferries and even
fewer the bridges to help the ma
tional legislators over rivers. Some
times streams were so swollen that
a senator's family could not cross
safely in their wagon"
Oxen would be unyoked and swum
across the river. The senator's wife
and children alighted and securely
fastened their baggage to the wagon
floor. The senator next attached
strong ropes to the wagon, towed the
ropes across stream and hitched
them to his team.
The wagon then was rolled into
the oxen off, shouting at and cheer
Ing them. Thus the Aequipage was
hauled through the current and up
the opposite bank.
To get his family across the water
the senator took soundings until he
found a strip where the water was
not much above his waist. There he
carried over those who could not
swim, ore by one.
X X X x
NIIGHTFALL brought new dangers,
= even though the congressional
family might be fortunate enough to
be lodged in a trading post hut. One
fearful night was described by
Jessie, daughter of Thomas H Ben
ton, Missourf's pioneer senator.
II was awakened by q sound full
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Covered wagons bt9Hsht loves first SeM
peed w1tt which it. carried ftc1St4 ih 1900.
Evening star., 1923-12-02

LID man Negley was trimming
the Shrady hedge, on Vine
\ street, one morning, when
~ Dick Benner came running
Evening star., 1923-12-02
BY GENE THOMAS.

we near no more Of the Changing ho6f
, ana the stagecoach rattling by;
For the steam king rules the Travelled world
And the old pixies left TO die.
Old Coachman's Lament.
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NIGHTFALL brought new dangers,
even though the congressional
family might be fortunate enough to
be lodged in trading post hut. One
fearful night was described by
Jessie, daughter of Thomas II. Ben
ton, 6issourf's pioneer senator
Fl was awakened by q sound full
Evening star., 1923-12-02

DAILROADS were being introduced
~ throughout the Atlantic coast
states when Crockett came to Con-
gress, but were yet only small links
in the nations transportation sys-
tenn. To come to Washington from
his home, near Mills Point, Tenn,
Representative Crockett had to use
stage coach, river boat and train.
Leaving Washington for home,
July 2, 1884, Crockett went by stage
to Baltimore. From Baltimore he
sailed down Chesapeake bay to "a
place where ~ boarded the rail-
road cars"
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chickens that cross the road.
: A fireman who wears Q cellu.
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A flapper who uses the public
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A chaperons for an old maids.
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The wife of professional valet.
Henry Ford and John D. play
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MEDBURY
SAYS


BY John p. Medbury.
-yERYBoDY seems to be
going to Paris for divorces
AA decree obtained in this
country isn't fashionable any
more.
81 <Ss "s'S
IT'S a hobby among rich people
to be separated in a foreign Ian
guage.
A divorce in America is just as
refreshing, but It doesn't mean
so; much socially.
A woman can take q husband
to France on one boat and return
on the next steamer empty
HANDED.
OF course the first thing you
want to do when you come back
is to deny that you secured a d.
vorce. It isn't considered stylish
to admit it.
You should sue for divorce on
this side, too, and in that way
you can get alim0ny from both
continents.
Some attorneys say that a di-
yorce, secured abroad is not legal.
It may not be legal, but it's just
rs comfortable.
Very few men ever go to
Europe for DEGREES. A man usu-
ally sends his wife after it. He
figures she, needs the trip. any
way.
But some women are absent
minded. One dame travelled all 4
the way to Paris and then forgot
what she had gone over there for.
She had to cable her husband to
find out.
After a woman goes to Paris
and obtains a divorce she comes
back and then gets sore il her
ex-husband isn't down to the dock
to4meet her.
This II the reason SO many
men subscribe, to foreign papers.
They like to keep posted as to
whether they're still married or
have been divorced.
One guy kept sending his wife
money for three years until he
happened to read in Paris paper
that she'd been. married to some
body else for year and half.
He bought another paper the
next day and found out that he
had deserted his wife five years
Ego. sa| s
Some women will say anything
to- get a divorce, a lot. of them
even, go as far as to tell the
truth.
But it's a wonderfully superior
feeling to come back to this
country with a Partisan divorce
decree pinned i'm your crouch bag.
However, you should always
get an interpreter to read it to
you. One woman carried two
French dog licenses around for
six months thinking they were
her. separation papers.
80 ~ .s~
In Paris, divorce DEGREES take
effect at once, but In this eOun-
try you often have to shoot your
husband before it becomes final.
Sos girls, if you can't afford to =,
GO to Paris to sue, the best thing
tn do is to stay in this country,
and when you walk down the
street always carry lawyer in
one hand and a revolver in the
ether.
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NOTED PHRASES


81 would loan you the SO in
a minute II I could spare 1t. but
with repairing the car. the wifs's
new clothes and paying the next
installment on the furniture, you
see how It Is, old man."
II started to come home at 10
O'Clock, dear, but Joe McDpff
wanted my advice about his new
house. I couldn't very well in-
suit him, could IT.
Don't. you think we had bet
ter wait and go to the movies
tomorrow night, dearf / had
hard day at the office today:
you know there are q thousand
and one things we have to do
around the first Of the month"
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In some parts Of the United
States q dog license costs more
than a marriage license. This is
only fair, because q dog license
lasts for year, while marriage
license is often torn up before
the first six months are over.
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FIGURE IT OUT

There are 1888 paddle-fIsh In
the Mississippi, but as yet no
fisherman has caught one that
can spell the name Of the river
correctly.
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6 6 6

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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-09-11

You should sue for divorce ON
this side, too, and in that way
you can get alim0ny from both
continents.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-09-11

Some attorneys say that d.
yorce> secured abroad is not legal.
It may not be legal. but it's just
as comfortable.