Gold Hill news., November 25, 1911, Image 2

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IN THE GARDEN BELOW
By MOLLY MacMASTER
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Low Slums Near the Nation’s Capitol
Tree alley because It was the only one
bearing a name that comports well
with a state document. The other four
are Pigtail alley. Tlncup alley. Louse
alley and Hell's Half Acre alley These
names, with the exception of Willow
Tree alley, have the virtue of making
any other description unnecessary.
Why Willow Tree alley was so named
ASHIN G TO N.— Washington ta not
nobody remembers. There may have
one grand succession ot marble
been a willow tree there once.
structures and beautiful parks. There
The district Is hard to And. It ta
are slums under the shadow of the
capitol that compare In squalor with within the outer crust of a block which
the East side In New York. The capi­ has a rather fair exterior. A stranger,
tal slums have the advantage over after fruitless search, appealed tc a
The officer pointed to a
those In New York In being less ex­ policeman
tensive and In being composed of narrow opening between two build­
small houses Instead of lo ft; tene­ ings. "Go on In there, and you'll see
all you want of It.” he said
" It ’s a
ments.
The Washington refuge of the very pest hole. It Is. I'd go with you. but
poor Is sufficiently bad to have at­ It’s off my V>eat."
The officer was lucky. What the vis­
tracted the attention of sociologists
and philanthropists and to have itor found after he passed the portal
caused President T a ft to demand their of the slums would not be pleasaut ad­
Improvement In a message to con­ juncts to any beat. The buildings ap­
peared to be ages old. Stables ad­
gress.
This district Is within ten minutes' joined homes. Piles of stable refuse
walk of the United States capitol and gave forth offensive odors and drew
has for one of Its boundaries the bo­ clouds of flies. Negroes and whites
tanical gardens with their wealth ot were mixed In one Inextricable con­
exotics. President Taft. In his mes­ fusion. Puny, sickly children rolled
sage. made particular mention of W il­ about on the ground. Slatternly, dis­
low Tree alley, but It Is no better and couraged women sat on the steps or
no worse than the others. Possibly In rooms which spoke eloquently of
the president mentioned only Willow the most abject poverty.
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Uncle Sam Gives Facts About Fleas
H ER E may be those who Imagine
It Is an easy thing to kill a Ilea
Hut If they w ill read certain facts re­
ported by the United States public
health and marine service their minds
w ill be disabused of the notion. The
Information Is given In a pamphlet en­
titled "Notes on Agents for Flea De­
struction." F l.as, It appears from
these notes, survive all the usual dying the Investigators tried oil of
means of Insect assassination and pennyroyal, oil of peppermint, kero­
sene, miscible oil, the refuse from the
others less common.
But bow to k ill the flea Is not the Plntgch gas tanks and many other
only problem before the Investigators. chemicals. A flea left to swim In for­
I t Is quite as much of a puxxle to know malin, a powerful germicide and In­
secticide, was "apparently dead In 13
when he Is dead.
I t was found that when It comes to hours," but “revived;” another kept
death by drowning a flea has more for 20 minutes In a mixture of creo­
lives than a cat. That Is to say when sote, soap and water was still alive
the medium Is water. But fleas left after fifteen minutes, but died five
swimming over night In a mixture of minutes after th a t
I t took 100 per cent, carbolic acid
glycerin and water are dead the fol­
more than one minute to kill a flea;
lowing morning.
Obviously the flea Is a hobo among of two fleas that were made to swim
insects, for one of his deadliest ene­ In a one one-thousandth mercury chlor­
mies Is green soap. A flea dipped en­ ide solution, a powerful germicide, one
tirely In a tincture of green soap suc­ was alive after ten hours, the other
cumbed beyond resuscitation In two after eighteen hours; powdered sul­
minutes; another ceased hts move­ phur was practically Inert and useless
ments In forty seconds and was dead for killing fleas. Hydrocyanic acid Is
In ten minutes; no fleas of any or the among the most powerful poisons, yet
species examined survived the soap.
five fleas exposed for 45 minutes to
In a humane attempt to suit the hydrocyanic gas were alive at the end
tastes of the flea In the manner of of the te s t
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Cranks Offer Forest Fire Remedies
H IL E the field officers of the U. 8.
Forestry service are taking pre­
cautions against fire In the great na­
tional forests of the west, the forestry
bureau Is besieged constantly by
“ cranks" and real Inventors, chiefly
the former, who propose all sorts of
ridiculous plans for coping with the
flames. One of the most novel of
these recently came from an eastern
man who proposed that an artillery
organization be formed in the forest
service and equipped with huge mor­
tar batteries, which would shoot
gTpnades filled with chemicals.
This man’s plan was to have a bat­
tery of these mortars hauled to a suit­
able bill near a forest fire, from which
the grenades would be discharged rap­
idly Into the fire and, bursting, would
smother the flames. Admitting that
chemicals will extinguish a small
blaze, the forestry people told this In­
ventor to move on, as all the chemicals
In the world would hardly extinguish
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a forest tire wuk a front of ten miles.
Another “crank's" plan was to con­
struct huge screens of asbestos,
which could be placed around trees
near a fire and thus prevent them Ig­
niting. Of course this way did not at­
tempt to explain bow the problem of
transporting these screens through
rough moutalnous country could be
solved.
A third plan was to locate a num­
ber ct huge sprinkling carts In each
forest ana drive them to a Are, yirn
on the water and. presto! your tire
would be out— the Inventor said. He
was told to go to, unless he could pro­
vide a sprinkling cart big enough to
tack'o a fire such as raged last fall In
Idaho, the flames of which mounted
over 200 feet In the air and burned
the ties off a railroad bridge, and at
another point jumped clear across a
valley half a mile wide, converting
streams In Its path Into steam and
cooking the fish therein.
The forest Are lighters do not re­
ject all novel suggestions.
In fact,
they have adopted a chemical equip­
ment for use In putting out small
ground 11 res In the Arkansas National
forest. Some of the rangers are
equipped with rubber muzzles contain­
ing sponges to be wet and put over the
nose.
Inoculate Soldiers A gainst Typhoid
H E entire army ot the United
States Is to be Inoculated against
typhoid fever, officers and privates
alike. An order has been Issued by
M aj. Gen. Leonard Wood, chief of
staff, making It compulsory for every
officer and enlisted man In the army
under rorty-flve years of age to sub­
ject himself to the typhoid fever vac­
toral strength of the army at present
cine. This order applies to all those Is 76,000 so there will be plenty of
who have not heretofore had typhoid
work for the surgeons of the army to
fever or who have not ben Inoculated perlorm before each one has under­
with the germ. Heretofore It has been
gone treatment.
voluntary on the part of an officer or
The “typhoid prophylatlc,” as It ts
private In the army whether he should called, has been prepared by Major
subject himself to the experiment, but Rusell of the medical corps, stationed
from this time every one serving In at the army medical school In this
Uncle Sam’s fighting rorce must un­ city, and will be distributed to the
dergo the experience.
various forts and posts throughout the
Estimates compiled at the war de­ country. It Is estimated that In about
partment show that up to the present a month’s time every ofllcer and man
tim e about 17,000 Inoculations for ty­ In the army will bave been Inoculated.
phoid have been made. Of the troops Very little If any Inconvenience as a
who were sent to the Mexican border result of the Inoculation Is felt by the
nearly 12,000 had been inoculated. The patient
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PROPOSES A T R U S T R EM ED Y
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Delicts slipped joyously Into the girl found herself consciously Jealous
Uniform state laws governing cor­
soft pink silks of her costume
The of the pink roses; especially wss she
porations rather than tederul corpora­
young woman possessed a tempera­ jealous of the tender care which was
tion control to tbe remedy proponed
The man spent
ment and could write In nothing eave given to one bush
lor trusts by Edgar H. Farrar, presi­
pink— pink from her slippers, to the hours tending the glorious bud that
dent of the American Bar association.
large bow that confined a mass of wss slowly opening Its been to tbe
"The great American national dis­
He pruned and petted and
copper ringlets at the nape of her garden.
grace," said Mr Farrar at the recent
neck. Her cheeks rivaled the pink of watched tt with the eyes uf a lover.
convention of the bar association at
Deltcta's desire for a cluster of
the frock for Inspiration had come
Boeton. "Is found In the leeuance of
those
rosea
became
a
passion
When
suddenly and she could scarcely con­
flclltloue or watered stock. Thte la
the
man
In
the
garden
burled
hla
head
tain herself until she reached her den
made possible by those corporation
She glanced out at the rambling old lu their pink depths to Inhale their
tows which provide no governmental
house In the next garden; It had been sweetuess the felt that she must rush
supervision over the organisation ot
vacant so long that the windows were down and clutch some of them to her
corporations which require no part of
almost hidden behind the uakept own heart.
the capital stock to be paid In money
Upon the night of the big dance In
vines A desultory litigation had hung
and which permit the leeuance or
the
town
hall
Dellcla
etood
before
her
over Its stately premises so long that
Stock at the pleasure ol the organisers
Dellcla had decided to make use of mirror and gated at the pink cloud re­
and directors at such valuations as
flected there.
the privacy It afforded.
they may choose to place on them, To
"1 need that one • »se." she said to
Consequently. Dellcla carried her
my mind, the most vicious ol ail the
"My costume Is Incomplete
writing paraphernalia to a small den herself
provisions In the statutes above enu­
Mke room on the third floor
Fortu­ I without IL I simply mutt have tt for
merated to that authorising one cor­
nately for the r ’rl’a temperament, the my hair "
poration to own and vote stock In an­
She
slipped
quietly
out
and
glided
wails bore traces of pink flowers and
other. This provision-to the mother
with the touches which artistic hands > through tbe ronoR'<Rht Into the gnrden
of the holding company and the trust.
can give Dellcla soon had an attrac next door. O v .'» ln the garden. Dell- It provides a method for combining under
mnnagemeiit and control cor­
I cla forgot everything save the glor-
tlve workshop
She wandered about porations from one end of the nation to the other.
Arrived In her bower, the girl peep­ I ous moment.
“Concerted action among the states will end all the trouble
If every
ed out through the port ho'e of her i the rose paths Inhaling draught after state In the Union will purge Its corporation laws of all objectionable ten­
window—she had sacrificed the vines I draught of their aweetneaa and look­ tures then the breeding places of Industrial monstrosities are destroyed. It
to that extent—and sighed as she ing always for the one pink beauty.
appears to me that It woûld require but a small amount of constructive slates-
gated wistfully at the old garden so The moonlight turned them all about
manshlp to bring about a stale conference and united action on thto grave
rich In possibilities but so much In until they looked like little pale aoula
subject."
need of loving hands to guide Its playing about In the garden.
Mr. HVrrar ridicules the proposed scheme of E. I f Gary, president of the
"You beauty!” she cried aloud when
straying vines and tangles of old-
Steel Trust, for government regulation of prices, lie says: "For government
her Angers found the one they sought.
world fiowstjk .
to fix the prices of merchandise bought and sold In commerce ta utterly be­
Her "Oh— h. but you here thorns!" she
Dellcla had‘ no time herself
murmured as she tried to break the yond the power of any legislative body In America,"
stories demanded every moment
"Besides." sbe murmured to the stem.
"Perhaps I can cut It for you,” a
garden, ."someone might see me and
then— 1 might be put out of my loveiv voice, musical and rich, came out
room " She grew fearsome at the from the moonlight.
Nathan Allen, the Indicted leather
“Oh—b !” Dellcla slipped quietly
very thought and went desperately to
trust magnate of Kenosha, Wta., ac­
down among the roaea.
work on the story In her mind.
The man hastily threw away bis cused of smuggling at New York, will,
For an hour or more her typewriter
tt to stated, made a spirited defense.
clicked
When the best of her cigar and stooped over the girl.
"Great Scott!
I didn't mean to It to safd the Allen side of the Jenkins
thoughts were safely down she be­
came more conscious of outward startle you, child!" He picked the lmbrorflo will specify an attempt to
pink rloud up In his arms and gated carry out a blackmail scheme. That
sounds
Gradually It came to her senses down at her face. “You beauty." he his wife believes absolutely In Alton's
Innocence Is shown by the fact that
that a peculiar grating noise had been muttered under his brea“ -
Martin Duane picked a great roee they spent the' eutlre summer togeth­
going on for tome time. At the same
moment a voice was humming “My bud hastily and drew It gently across er on a Montana ranch.
Indictments charging Nathan Allen
the girl's brow. It waa cool and De-
Love Is Like a Red. Red Roee."
of Kenosha. W Is. and John R. Collins
Dellcla jumped up cautiously and llcla t eyes opened slowly.
"Thank goodness." cried the man at of Memphis, Tenn., with tbe smug­
peered through the opening In the
vines. Sbe started back, then quickly hla eyes looked deep Into tbe great gling of jewels valued at more than
gsay ones. So fascinated was he that *100,000 were brought to light In the
he forgot for the moment that he waa office of United States District Attor­
ney Wise In New York. The gems arc
holding her close In his arms.
alleged to have been smuggled Into
“I am better now,” she said.
He released her and said quickly, that port from tbe steamship Lusi­
"I am a brute to have startled you. tania on June 26. 1909.
The Indictments were the outcome
so especially when I have waited so
long for you to come down from your of the testimony before the federal
grand Jury of Mrs. Helen Dwelle Jen­
sky."
Dellcla cast a startled glance at kins. to whom the Jewelry alleged to
have been smuggled was presented, and from whom it was later stolen while
him. "You have known?"
**I saw you slip through your gate she was living at a New York hotel. Following tbe theft of tbe gems there
and Into this house almost the first was a great deal of publicity glvon to Mrs. Jenkins and Mr. Allen, and the
day.”
M artin Duane spoke with a matter waa finally settled by a consideration of *72,000, of which Mrs. Jenkins
wonderful tenderness. “You had on says she received *31.000.
Collins,'a'coal operator of Tennessee, was a fellow passenger of Allen, the
something pink— like this.” He touch­
ed the senrf that hung from her shoul­ Indictment In the Tennesseean's case recites, and It charges him with hqvlng
der. “That Is why 1 put In so many smuggled a necklace consisting of five strands of pearls with a diamond and
ruby clasp, a pearl and diamond bracelet and other articles of Jewelry and
pink flowers,” he said simply.
Dellcla looked up at the man and wearing apparel. The charge of conspiracy to also laid at bis door.
her breath came quickly.
“And I would have taken your very
finest rose," the said.
“Yours,” he corrected her. “I had
Henry Rockwell linker, a twenty-
made up my mind that If I hadn't
year old youth of St. Charles, II!., w ill
managed to meet you before that roee
get *250,000 when he to graduated
came Into full bloom that I would
from college. Baker to the late John
send It up to you with a plea for
W. Gates's only nephew. Mr. Gates
your— "
was very fond of him; the millionaire
“It la In full bloom,” said Dellcla
bequeathed *10,000 to be given to hlin
softly.
at once for hts expenses at college
The man stooped over the bush and
and *250,000 when he gets his degree.
cut the rose. He very carefully re­
But he w ill not play football. Al­
Peered Through the Opening.
moved all tbe thorns and put it Into
though hla uncle placed no restric­
her hand
resumed her position as sbe realized
tions upon him. the lad remembers
A moment later he said: *T have
her safety.
that Gates was opposed to football,
bought this place."
A man was digging In the garden
and, for that reason, w ill not attempt
Dellcla was silent for a moment,
below.
to make a team.
but In that moment something, subtle
Surprise, Indignation, joy were min­
He hns promised when he leaves
and Intangible though It was, told her
gled In the expression of Delicla’s
college and comes Into his *250,000,
that she need never give up tbe pink
eyes— Indignation that anyone dared
that he will stay away from W all
den.
to enter what she had grown to con­
street. This Is also out of deference
sider her own, and Joy that the old
to his late uncle's wishes. John W.
W hy He W a t Exhausted.
garden was at last coming Into Its
Gates once advised him. If he ever
A
party
of
men
went
out
from
a
own, for the man below was working
got hold of any money, to keep away
like a happy slave over paths and Texan town to hunt ducks, and one of
from that mart of speculation and the
the men got separated from the rest.
vines and rose trees.
boy regards this advice as a request.
Dellcla made her cup of tea slowly By four o’clock in the afternoon he
Baker was greatly surprised by tbe
had
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ducks
and
one
brant,
and
con­
and thoughtfully while she cast oc­
He munificent bequest, but started In studying to earn It at once.
casional glances Into the garden or cluded he would return home.
Baker was a student In the St. Charles high school until he finished hla
was
less
than
three
miles
from
town
at
rather at the man In the garden. That
studies there last fall; he was half-back on the school eleven and to an all-
the
time,
but
the
rushes
were
so
high
he was big and well knit wag easily
around athlete. "Henry to a bright boy,” Mr. Gates once said. "H e Is a lad
seen and that his head wss crowned that he could not see the houses. All who studies and plays football too and thnt to the right kind. I want him to
that
night
he
wandered,
and
all
the
with gold was equally apparent but
next day, until at sunset, among rush­ get an education. He will find an education means more to him that all the
his features were not discernible.
money In the world.”
She gave up the attempt and sat es ten feet high, he suddenly came to
the
river
bank.
Then
he
didn’t
know
down to her tea. Gloom brooded In
which way to go, but finally decided
her eyes.
“Has some horrible person bought on down stream, which luckily hap­
the place?” was the question upper­ pened to be In the right direction.
Some time ago Representative Ha-
most In Dellcla’s mind. She cast an­ About ten o'clock at night he stag­
other glance through the vines. “He gered Into town, utterly prostrated, bath of Illinois Introduced a resolution
Isn’t so horrible, at that,” she confid­ and not until he reached hla own In congress levying a tariff of 26 per
ed to herself with a sparkle In her home did he realize that he was still I cent, upon all marriage dowries, set­
eyes. “Anyway, I shall Just wait and carrying nearly fifty pounds of birds, tlements between Americans and for­
see. He can't any more than put me which he had forgotten be was encum­ eigners. Sentiment In favor of such
bered with.
a tax has been growing since and If
out.”
there Is any way of passing a law
But M artin Duane did not dispos­
A Mariner at Fifteen.
which w ill be constitutional and ef­
sess Dellcla. And as the weeks wore
John Dudley Hall, a fifteen-year-old fective at the same time, to regulate
on he apparently did not once become
conscious of the pair of gray eyes Plnora (Ga.) high school boy, wan­ this marriage barter, steps to do so
that followed him In his work about dered Into New York police headquar­ w ill probably be taken In the next ses­
ters looking for shelter. Since June sion of congress.
the garden.
There Is an economic side to the
The magazines suffered the loss of 3 he worked bis way to Savannah,
Delicla’s work. Up In the pink den Hamburg, Germany; Leith, Scotland; marriage of our rich American girls
Dellcla grew peevish because her well Dundee, Scotland; Leith again, Ham­ to titled Europeans. It Is estimated
trained brain refused to compose burg again, London, England, and then that the purchase1'of these titles costs
beautiful stories; It preferred to take to New York. He had a letter from the enormous sum of *1.000,000,000
vivid Interest In every movement of Daniel Svenson, assistant superintend­ every ten years—a drain that few
ent of the Savannah Port society, stat­ countries In the world, perhaps no
the man In the garden.
The garden thrived and blossomed ing the boy had had hla parents* con­ othef country except our own, could
Into a veritable fairyland of color. The sent to travel, to ship as seaman, or to stand.
The fact that It Is wealth which
man seemed to take particular care go sailing In any other capacity a|
of the roses; to Dellcln's longing eyes ship’s master might wish. Hall aald titled foreigners are seeking wbea
it looked as If the pink ones grew he wes hungry, having been In New they marry American girls to self-
defiantly larger and more desirable York several days, spent all his evident. Whoever hears of a European noble matrylng a poor American g irl*
money and could not find work. He Whoever hears of an English heiress marrying a poor American? If lntsr»
than the others.
j national marriages were based on love the rule would work both ways.
As June wore toward Its close the was sent to the Children’s society.
CHARGED W IT H SMUGGLSNG
G E TS FO R TU N E FROM G A TES
W OULD TA X T H E H E IR E S S E S