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Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1927-03-03

MYTH only a few days remaining
w before the end Of the session,
congressman made an effort to rush
through lot OF legislation. In the
senate this was hampered by the fill
buster carried on for the purpose Of
defeating the bill TO dam the Colorado
river in Boulder canyon. Ashurst Of
Arizona led this filibuster and frus-
trated all efforts of Johnson of Call
fornia, author Of the bill. to bring 1t to
vote. AS the house steering com
miItee had decided the measure should
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1927-03-03

DY A vote of 20S to III the house
- accepted the senate amendment to
lhe navy appropriation bill providing
money for beginning the three light
.ruisers whose construction the Pres
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ident has insisted should be delayed.
The house reduced the amount from
s1.200,OO0 to $450O00, and the senate
acquiesced in this change.
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n MO lost one of her most d,s,..
- guished sons in the death Of INA
son Harmon, who passed AWAY 49,
pectedly in Cincinnati at the ,ga =,
eighty-one years. Mr.. Harmon ~
twice governor of Ohio. once attornav
general Of the United States. and a..
era' I'lnes q prominent possibility for
me Democratic Presidential nomina.
ton.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-06-26
THE CENTIPEDE

ing a secretion that kills the fly al
most instantly. When there are many
flies about. the centipede will Kill
several before beginning to feed. In
stead Of chewing at its prey, 1t sucks
out the soft parts through puncture,
leaving the head, legs. wings and
other hard parts.
Another argument for the harmless
ness Of the centipede is deduced from
the fact that when the creature is
grasped 1t does not try to defend it.
self, but seeks rather to escape. 1t
often does so by leaving its legs be-
hind" That is. the creature automati-
calIy throws off number of legs that
have been caught by the enemy and
limps off on the remaining ones. 1t
can easily spare dozen or more Of
its thirty legs, for the lost members
are replaced.
The centipede is found pretty much
all over the world. The species COM
mon in the United States. Scutigera
Forceps. was reported over 20 years
ago as devoting the nights to killing
house.f1ies. Later an observer detect
ed one in the act of capturing a but
terfiy much larger than itself. The
insect remains concealed during the
day.
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ture, and when once he is trapped
there is no escape. | felt that our
only chance of safety lay in cOncen-
trated effort. and with that end in
view we kept going without let-up.
We were continually reminded that
the River of Doubt was officially
known as the Rio Roosevelt" A
massive post near our camp had been
erected by the Brazilian government
1t originally carried an enameled
sign bearing the new name, but some
time ago tribe of Indians took a
fancy to its bright color and carried
the sign off. We painted the name
afresh on a small board and nailed
it to the post. OF all the names given
to this river the one that appeals
to me most is the River of Doubts"
How should we get down it? Should
we ever reach Manaos? How would
the boats behave? / was soon to
learn the answer.
After 10 days steady work in rain
and sunshine the finishing touches
had been given to our dugout. A rope
was tied to the bow and two lines
were tied to the stern. Getting it
down to the river was the hardest
work Of all. A trail had to be cut
through the forest and innumerable
small logs laid at right angles to the
path. BY sheer force it was hauled
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THE centipede, which really never
- has a hundred legs, despite IT'S
name. has always borne an evil repu-
tation. but one scientist at least mas
come to it's defense.
In the first place, it appears the
creature is not poisonous. as is COM
monty supposed. There is only one
authentic case of poisoning by the
centipede, that reported by DIR. josiah
Curtis of Washington. A woman was
walking in her bare feet in her room
at night and was stung between the
toes by one of these creatures. Inc
bite was followed by inflammation and
severe pain that endured for 80 hours.
The authority first mentioned ques-
tons even this case, because the symp'
toms were very much like those, pro-
duced by the sting of bee or hornet,
and also because experiments have
been made with much larger species
of centipedes which showed that they
were always harmless.
But this investigator also finds the
creature useful. On several occasions
he came upon individuals Of the
species Scutigera Coloeptrata catching
flies and other insects. The centipede
grasps the fly with its front legs and
quickly bites It in the thorax, inject
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he saw the boats floating like feathers
on the water and asked to try one out
for himself. He was immensely I'M
pressed and told his companions so.
Eugene Bussey had been concen-
trating his efforts on the wireless, and
every evening spoke with an amateur.
LIB, in Rio, who in turn relayed our
messages to New York. Frequently
we would hear some United States
station broadcasting to Europe, and
the daily news bulletins were also
source of interest.
A LII members of the expedition
were in fine fettle Muscles were
hardened and our digestive organs
were accustomed to rough food. Our
food supply consisted solely Of rice,
beans, dried meat. coffee, sugar and
salt--in all we had sufficient to last
us 40 days, provided we husbanded
our supplies and found q little game.
This did not allow us any margin
for possible accidents or delays.
Roosevelt's party encountered their
first settlers some As days after start.
ing. ! figured on getting through
more rapidly. If misfortune should
detain us, our position would be
fraught with additional perils. In
these forests man Is but child strug-
CLING feebly against all-powerful ma
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BY GEORGE DYOTT.

~ UR arrival on the banks OF
the River of Doubt marked q
decided step forward toward
~ our goal. 1t had been freely
predicted that we would
never get so far, and / am bound to
admit that had it not been for con
siderable good luck the prophecy
might have come true. We had traV'
eled with difficulty over a trail 450
miles long that offered no serious OBJ
stacles TO a man travelling light. Our
troubles came from having so much
baggage to transport and so many
mouths to feed Again, our encoun-
ter with the rebels, which hampered
our movements at the start, was an
adventure that no one could have
foreSeen.
All of my party welcomed the flow
!. waters of the River of Doubt with
feelings of relief. We were quite ex-
hausted after our incessant labor of
driving dumb animals and watching
them stagger under heavy loads with
out being able to alleviate their suf-
fering, From now on we would travel
in comfortable canoes propelled by
the swift current of the river. and if
any cargoes had to be portrayed
around rapids we would have to carry
them on our own backs. Outwardly
the prospects seemed attractive, but
in reality we were simply changing
one set of difficulties for another
new difficulties that in the end proved
worse than those we had just expert
enced.
A few typical passages taken from
"A Col Roosevelt's book, The Bra
Gillian Wilderness" gave us fair idea
Of the kind OF country we were about
to pass through and of the troubles
we might expect on the way:
The country was fiat and more
OF the land was under than above
water. Continually we found our.
selves travelling between stretches of
marshy forest where for miles the
water stood or ran among the trees"
Now and then the swift water
hurried us toward ripples that mark
ed ugly spikes of sunken timber, or
toward the uprooted trees that stretch.
cd almost across the stream"
The two big rapids we only just
made, and after each we had hastily
to push ashore in order to bail"
when a rushing river thus can
vons' as we say out West, and the
mountains are very steep, it becomes
almost impossible to bring the canoes
down the river ltSel1, anu utterly AA-
possible to portage them along the
cliff sides, while even to bring the
loads over the mountain is task Vi
extraordinary labor and difficulty.
Moreover, no one can tell how
many times the task would have to
be repeated, or when it will end, or
whether the food will hold out. Every
hour of work in the rapids is fraught
with the possibility of gravest disaster.
and yet it is imperativeiy necessary 70
attempt il: and all this is done in an
uninhabitated wilderness. or else
wilderness tenanted only by unfriendly
sayaees where failure to get through
means death by disaster and starva-
ton -
In my own mind / realized how
slender was the thread upon which
our chance of success hung. We were
short of food. short of men; and once
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Our first act was to send back the
| tired animals which we had arranged
to turn over TO the government. After
a days rest they were driven off by
| two men who had come with us from
Capos Novos. That was the last we
| saw of them,
| NOV came the all.important ques.
ton Of canoes. 'ealized before
| leaving New York that 80 per cent Of
| the trouble of the Roosevelt expedition
was due to the heavy dugouts en-
ployed. So heavy are these primitive
| craft that 1t is almost impossible to
carry them overland: to haul them
! througA the forest on roller logs is al
most equally impossible: and they can.
not b.. trusted to shoot the smallest
rapids with any degree of safety. That
was why I had purcha sed the portable
boats. and carried them all these miles
through central Brazil. They were
light. easily taken apart, and their
buoyancy was an obvious asset in
rough water. Whether they would
stand up under the heavy work that
lay before us remained to be seen.
In Sac Luiz l had engaged the serv-
ices of four men-camaradaS they are
called locally--to accompany my party
to Manaos. I had taken on few en-
ira hands along the military telegraph
line for emergencies. One of these,
America. / referred to in the second
chapter Of these. a dvcntures. The head
pilot was named Juan de Cruz. The
canoe carpenter was Alfred, Plates.
Both these men had been with the
Roosevelt expedition as far as the
River of Doubt. The two remaining
camaradas, whose names were Vitalino
and LUZ, were men who could lend q
hand with anything. 1t was on these
four men that we depended to see US
through TO our journeys end.
Had I said word to them about
canvas boats they would have fought
shy of our company. because these
people of Matte Crosse are absurdly
conservative. and any change from
approved methods Of navigation would
not have been looked upon faVorably.
Bearing this in mind, / had talked or
making dugout canoes. and whenever
canvas boats were discussed referred |
to them as a foolish experiment / was |
making, and said that our main stand I
by would be the dugout
My scheme was to build one large |
dugout for the satisfaction OF the |
camaradas and carry any excess mate |
rial in the canvas boats, which Boz
Young and / would navigate. If the |
dugout proved too much of good |
thing, we could abandon it in favor or |
the third folding boat. If the folding /
boats did not come up to our expecta'
tons, then we could make small RATS
or tiny dugouts to replace them. IT
these also failed, then we should be IN |
real difficulties.
~ %*
THE making Of that dugout was |
pretty strenuous business. 1t was
done under the direction Of Alfredo.
We hunted high and low for suitable
tree. The forest was dense, but filled,
for the most part, with trunks of IN |
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since our arrival. In consequence
the river had subsidized and the swift
ness of the current had eased up con-
siderably. Our big canoe. like a
tramp steamer ready to sail. was
| moored alongside the bank laden
down with cargo. She had only
! few inches Of freeboard The two
canvas canoes were also we'll loaded,
and on the shore there still remained
| small pile Of cargo. This had to
| be left behind.
1t is interesting to compare Col.
| Roosevelt's personnel and fleet of
canoes with my own outfit. He had
six white men and sixteen paddlerS.
| OF seven canoes, four were dashed to-
gether in pairs to give greater stabil-
| ity. The other three navigated indivi-
dually, with burfales Of burity palm
stems on either side to buoy them up.
| My party consisted of four white men
and four paddlers' distributed among
| three canoes. Provisions for fifty days
made up the bulk of the cargo carried
| by Roosevelt. Surveying instruments.
| cameras and personal equipment
amounted to very little. The major
| portion of my cargo consisted OF ten
| heavy cases of Photographic material;
| then there was the wireless apparatus,
| with batteries, amounting to quite Il
| load. In addition, our store of food
was no light weight.
| Comparing the two expeditions, the
weight we carried per man was far in
| excess of that carried by the Roose-
yelt-Rondon expedition. Our ratio of
whites to native help was infinitely
| less; and whereas we averaged some
| two and a half men to a canoe. the
Roosevelt party averaged more than
three. l consider, then, that we were
under a much greater handicap, but
where we eventually scored was in
| having much less dead weight in the
| shape of dugout canoes to handle.
| Each of our boats had a name. Bob 8
was called Rondon. Mine was Roose-
welt, and the third canvas canoe,
| which be carried on board the dugout,
was named Washington Luis, after
/ the president of Brazil. The heavy
| dugout was known as the League Of
| Nations, because so many nation0lities
were represented on board and so
many fruitless arguments took place
| there.
| A T 10 am. gave the signal to east
off. In a few seconds we were
caught in the current and went glid-
ing on our way. Our real adventure
had begun. L think we all realized
that stiff work lay ahead of us. The
flowing road we were to follow ran
| due north through the green wilder
ness to Manaos, a thousand miles
away.
The scenery was fascinating. In
| places branches from forest giants
met overhead. Delicate palms leaned
out across the channel, waving their
graceful fronds in the breeze; or else
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their slim trunks lay horizontally,
half submerged "a the water. OF OBJ
stacles there were many. Trees had
fallen at inconvenient places, strad-
ding the channel from bank to bank.
Reaching such Instructions we would
pull up and chop with axes till pass
age had been opened. In avoiding
some Instructions we padded into Ia
goons lying far back in the forest and
linked with the main stream by small
canals. They were veritable pools of
silence, deep and mysterious.
The river twisted in every direction.
Several times the whistle of warning
from the leading canoe would sound
at the back of those who were bring
ing up in the rear. Outside of a few
birds perched in the treetops there
were no signs of life-no indication of
Indians, no tracks of wild animals.
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his grave separates his remains from
the common burial trench of 1,340 VIC
Tins of the guillotine which was set
up close by during the reign Of terror
of the French Revolution.
When the revolution was over the
descendants and relatives Of those
who had been guillotined there bought
the place where the bodies had been
thrown in pell-mell for burial and
opened this little cemetery beside it..
The same trees reach their sheltering
arms across the wall between the
nameless and the named.
Lafayette's devoted wife was of the
family of the Dukes Of Noailles and
Ayen, and they had many dead from
the guillotine buried in this common
trench. She escaped the terror be-
cause she had already gone to share
Lafayette's Austrian prison with him.
Members Of such families were given
the exclusive right to be buried in this
little convent cemetery across the
wall from the common burial trench
where their ancestors lie together.
That is why Lafayette lies here.
Many of those in the common
trench and in the convent cemetery
had also been his comrades in the
American Revolution. And others of
the newer generations of their families
have had American wives as mothers
Of their line. So It is no fiction that
draws Americans to this Fourth Of
July pilgrimage.
No adequate history of these burials
and of this pilgrimage cemetery has
ever been written. It's lists would be
striking commentary on the French
crusade Of 1777 for American indie.
pendence.
OF Lying American wives of those
crusaders families, a few come read
lily to mind. Amsng Lafayette's de-
scendants. the Marquis de Chambrun
married Miss Rives Nichols of Cincin.
natl, and Count Adelbert de Cham.
brun, who is a general in2 Morocco.
married Miss Clara Longworth, sister
of our Speaker of the House Of Rep.
rasantatives.
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The Duke de Mouchy Of the
Noailles family, which was the
family Of Lafayette's wife, inherit
good old American blood from their
great. Caroline Fraser,
who married Prince Murat in 1881 in
his New Jersey exile, and whose
daughter, Princess Anna Murat, mar
ried the Duke de Mouchy during the
Second Empire.
The widowed Duchesse de la
Rochefoucauld is a daughter Of the
late Senator Mitchell of Oregon.
Countess Jean de Kergorlay was Miss
Marie Louise Carroll, daughter of
Gov. Carroll of Maryland and de-
scendant, in the fourth generation, or
Charles Carroll Of Carrollton, signer
of the Declaration of independence.
The history of American pilgrim
ages to the tomb of Lafayette might
be hard to write.
Lafayette died as late as 1884 and
was buried be5ide his wife, who died
in 1907. Americans who were inter-
ested always took the time to go out
to the convent and ring the bell--to
ask permission TO visit the little IN
closed cemetery.
1t was about the time when Robert
McLane of Delaware was Minister OF
the United States to France that the
official pilgrimages began.
McLane, when young. had been a
friend of Lafayette and was one OF
the last Americans to meet him IA
miliarly, and he always cultivated the
memory of Lafayette among Amerl'
cans in Paris, when he became Min
lister. That was 40 years ago. Since
then our various patriotic societies
have kept up the tradition faithfully
Sons and Daughters of the Revolution
and all the rest.
Since the World War there Is even
a pilgrimage on Memorial day, as
we'll as on the Fourth of July. In re-
memhrance Of the many buried here
who Fought with American patriots
Sor their Independence. -
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center, and a large family of ants had
chosen to make their home in its base.
Eventually we laid low an immense
giant that was sound from end to end
and straight as an arrow. The only
objection to it was the hardness of the
wood and it's weight. AS there, seemed
to be no other choice, however, we
began work without further delay,
and gradually that huge log. weighing
tons, was transformed into canoe 20
feet long and feet In beam.
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While the camaradas were hacking
away at our hardwood dugout, Bob
Young and 1 unpacked the canvas
boats and assembled them for test.
The task occupied a single afte rnoon
and might be described as mild recre-
alton. They proved easy to handle In
the current, carried truly astonish'
ing load, and gave one an impression
Of strength that was most reassuring.
That same evening when Juan, our
chief pilot, returned from his labors,
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Soldiers of the American Legion Make
Pilgrimage to the Tomb Of Lafayette

These are morning pilgrimages. Inc
afternoon is for the Suresnes Gene
terry of American soldiers who died IN
France in the World War. 1t is SIX
miles away and up the hill beyond
the River Seine. For ever, there
across the great City of Paris, the
hundreds of white crosses. row upon
row, call out to the leader OF the
young French soldiers who fought In
America nearly $50 years ago: La
fayette, we're here"
4 MERICANS have remembered La
fayette in other parts of Paris.
In the Place DIES Etats- Unis-"United
S ate Square"-surrounded by rich
residences, in one Of which President
Wilson lived during the peace con.
ference, there is the group statue or
Washington and Lafayette by Bar
thoIdi. sculptor of the Statue OF Lib
erty in New York Harbor.
In the interior vast oblong court
ward formed by the endless buildings
of the Louvre Palace of the Kings
of France (of whom one, Louis XVI,
was himself to be guillotined for lib
erty, although he countenanced La"
fayettes crusade for American inde'
pendence), there is the equestrian
statue of Lafayette by the American
sculptor, Paul Bartlett. 1t was given
to France by the school children OF
the United States.
These school children, already
grown up. will make thousands and
thousands more pilgrims to the tomb
Of Lafayette in Paris.
And now the news is published in
Paris that soldiers of the American
Legion. in their coming giant pilgrim
age to France, are bringing American
earth to mingle With the French soil
where their brothers lie buried.
Lafayette had this done for himself.
So it is to their home land that
Americans shall go on pilgrimage
through countless and amending
Tourths Of July In France. -
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forcibly than ever how impossible 1t
would be to make the trip If we
staked our all on the dugout of print
tive man.
X X X
THE following day had been set for
our departure. Everything was
in apple-pie order and the weather
was favorable. To my great sattstac-
ton, there had been very little rain
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sufficient size. After considerable
search we marked huge tree, reason
ably close to the river, and started TO
chop around it's base. 1t toppled over
with a Grassland turned out to be as
hollow as a drain pipe. We found a sec
ond and hacked away around its roots
until it eventually fell with terrible
din. pulling down a. dozen other trees
with it. 1t also turned out to be use.
less A flaw ran right through the
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over them inch by inch, foot by foot.
1t took five hours to move it from
the spot where for mo- - than hun
dred years it had stood silently watch
ing the jungle grow up around it.
What a job that was and how glad
we We're when it was over! In that
first effort / saw the answer to many
questions l had been asking myself,
and 1t brought home to me more
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Eneland's Broad Arrow

THE property of the English crown
has been marked with the broad
arrow from the times so early that
no one can tell when it was first used
for this purpose, or what was its
meaning.
This queer mark is stamped upon
the Kings property Of every descrip-
ton. from castles, ships and big guns
down to bagging and convicts' uni
forms, and there is penalty of 200
pounds sterling for removing II.
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BY STERLING HELLO.

ANS, JuLG 1Os A0St'
" HOMAS JEFFERSON gave the
first Fourth OF July dinner in
Paris while Lafayette was in
all the renown of his sreturn
from American Independence.
Americans in Paris still have their
Fourth of July dinner-but first they
go on pilgrimage to the tomb of La
fayette.'
At his own request earth from
America, which Lafayette had brought
to France and treasured for the pur-
pose, was mingled with the French
soil under which he was buried. So
II is doubly an American pilgrimage
to our friend of difficult days and to
our home land, which he helped to
make independent.
In other parts Of Paris there are
American monuments to Lafayette.
They must not be passed over. But
the pilgrimage, year after year, is to
this silent spot.
X y \
THE tomb is at the far east end Of
Paris. where Americans seldom
live It is in a garden inclosed by con-
vent buildings. Lafayette lies there
by right, Only the low wall behind