Great Fire Devours Elevator, Wheat
and Horses in St. Louis.
jjAiesday, February 6.
Feb. 6 — The senate did
opportunity today to hear
^^^^BBH S moii of Patterson’« resolution
IQ. the action of the Democratic caucus,
ticb was partially promised, hut
“ »'V e the «n t.re day to a review of the
1U‘C
1 »ngativee of the eenate in the matter
“ “ “ 'fram ing treaties. The question was
“ M C j b y l bacon in a speech on his
** “ Inflation »<<inesting information con-
’ -ning tha A Igeciras conference.
Lodge gave notice of a speech Mon-
ia ,v f on the) railroad rate b ill.
t
w. Washingt
, Feb. 6. — Having fixed
w.«.> end of the general debate on the
“ " •.e bill at 4:30 o’clock tomorrow, the
c“'I’*6$inition of the ctia’ r was passed
lht c“*>«nd at a lively rate in the house
^ c"’ gy. Seventeen speeches were made,
of them for the measure. The rail-
on. 0. ds came in for an unusual amount
Titiciam
tyth, j
Monday, February 5.
riaam Vashingt in, Feb 5.— The senate was
ry' 1*l ited to
sensation today by Patter-
iessu , . D em « Colo., who followed up his
irement if last Sturday 'tom the
nocratic caucus by intro iucing a
rlntion in effect declaring the action
he canons to have been contrary to
statu constitution of the United States.
3CXTT« iallingei succeeded during the day
wearing the fixing of a date for vot-
on the shipping b ill, the hour
mma oed being Wednesday at 3 p. ni.
Several bills were passed during the
ij and Teller made a speech in oppo-
t M * ° n t0 *^e shipping hill.
J0<)\rraker announced that he had no
’Cctr. sation of attempting to delay action
scubas, the statehood bill,
which he op-
lorcat i«d,
fail to« Washington, Feb. 5. — Considerable
piodrJt was found with the railroad rate
bteam: in the house today, considering the
»ttonk; tfjit it il a measure of both parties.
ffitletield, of Maine, and Grosvenor,
wndioiic)hio, both spoke against the bill.
<i*!,,»*-en 0tber speeches were made, all of
‘T “" ' m by members who wtll vote for the
but some of whom would like cn
»»s '
•ortunity to amend it. Gaines, of
aidi-T.-:1®0*8**®! ha» an anti-pass amendment
kfaifa.fh he w ill bring forward at the
^ e r time.
to o< ant the oonclusion of the day Hep-
i c « b », »n, in charge of the measure, said it
teito.«i(ec| now aa though debate would
ktuioui^iude at 3 o’ clock Wednesday. The
pn
oj
bill w ill begin at once,
he thinks it can he concluded, all
------ poeed amendments disposed of ami
bill paaseil that day before adjourn-
it.
s s i » t u >‘
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t coom , Saturday, February 3.
" " ‘“ ¡^fashingti"!, Feb. 3.— Various phases
the railroad rate question were
____ _ >slied over in the lioiire today in the
K Tat r'M of nine speeches which occupied
me cur:and a half hours. This concludes
•a on «»fifth day ot the discussion, but the
«hi* b ¡s not yet.
Many members on
**i sides of the honee desire to record
i°ni. - r v iewB an(j general debate w ill be
’ " , wed to continue.
'
enreeentative Randall today offered
uni eetJi that he w ill offer as an amend-
rlct, m C I t makes stringent provisions
tgaiost -rnst the giving or accepting of r.ii1-
ttcios « ■ passes or franks by senators, con-
of Biockijtuen and judges.
He proposes a
count», c0j not ie8(, t},an 11.000, or impris-
nce t>*aont for not, less than one year, or
’Ulh
ai,<^ disqualification from ever
iOW*ntts^ holding puiilic office.
The agent
N o " i « »Bcial of the company giving the
ng the» or frank, upon conviction, is to be
South US* not less than $100, nor more than
uming; »10, or imprisoned for not less than
■< court Months nor gaore than one year, or
I, Judge o('
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datei:
Friday. February 2.
a ta » « ’ ^kshington, Feb. 2.— Oratory on the
“'“ " ’’J^pad ra te lb ill held the attention of
“ nty
house f c six hours today. The
° 'D''
hes oflB u rtor.. Ohio,
McCall,
., and B e e rII, Tex., were features,
e Thomas. N. C , Burke, 8. D.,
P N T JOuldennM Y ., took up particular
L
specific topics.
V IA
fore p-ocepding to consideration ■ f
^ _ ate hill the house passed a hill ex-
jH in g the pub ic land laws to a tract
|flnd ten miles square in Wyoming
'■ d to the governni-nt in 1H07 hv the
^ ih o n e and Arapahoe Indian».
gon,
:
ashington, Feb. 2.— JThere was for
ment today a prospect that the
hood b ill" would receive its first
______ al reading <•
, always the
, ... yal step in ti e consideration of any
____ ______
CHIG,nr*
reP0^ ,’<' from a committee.
senate took up the calendar imme-
[S.
aly after,disposing of the routine
T AND
I
Wallace B efore Committee.
D l r « h :- nkto4 Feb.
— John F. Wal-
. y was before .he senate inter , cean c
Fast > Ai committee today and made a
UP T^tmeof Hraarding the severance ot
URTEOC relations with the Canal commis-
i. In it mb spoke of the violent at-
of SecKt rv Taft and Air Crom-
hrOUgS, the only r basis of which was, I »
v M o t’ a differetu-e •' opinion 1 -tween
f
self and Taft
1 Cromwell as to
olden iri* ht to d’
when be thought
( .
welfarePbd tb<- en’ erprise ->nil 1 •«
- .p y a i jnstifi«® 1 » resigna’ i n. He was
H E ? * .0 he dilm issei at a ry time.
[)S
—
Fod^ne* Wants Experimental Farms.
Washington, Feb. ft. — Hepresenta-
j „
J one« p t r luce 1 a h illa p p ro p ri-
g 9120,000 to establish and main-
«
i farms
^glW eterm iBe r the kind of crops best
rted to vari
i parts of the state.
[,
Jonee eho
- 1 sn order from
A g n m lta rsl defartm ent for the
ip m e in a g e of 9HK><> acres of swamp l.inil
’ iteveM ioui y.
Ttie land, when
tied, w ill! be valuable agTicultur-
bnsiness and, as the statehood bill oc­
cupied the first place, the secretary had
begun to read it before any of its opp i
nents realized the situation. He nad
covered but a few pages when Teller
put a stop to the proceedings tor the
time.
The shipping hill was made the basis
of a tunning debate between Patterson
in opposition and Gallinger and Per­
kins in support.
At the conclusion of this debate a
bill authorising the treasury to investi­
gate certain Missouri slate war claims
was passed.
Thursday, February I.
Washington, Feb. 1.— The discussion
of the railroad rate hill was taken up
and prosecuted with vigor throughout
the day. So m.-ny speakers have come
to the front on this measure that the
house agreed to meet at 11 o ’clock
hereafter until the debate is ended.
Tiie feature of the debate was the
lengthy speech of Sibley, of Pennsyl­
vania, who arraigned the legislation
with arguments of varied character,
all of which tended to give his riasons
for being unalterably opposed to the
bill.
The resolution of Burton, of Ohio,
looking to the preservation of Niagara
Falls, was agreed to without discus­
sion. The resolution calls for informa­
tion from the International commission
on that subject.
St. Louis, F’eb. 5.— Firs, which orig-
; inated in the Union Grain elevator in
East St. Louis, ID., last night, after
completely destroying that structure,
spread to surrounding buildings and
freight cars in the yards of the Termin­
al association, and caused damage esti­
mated at $1,250,000 before its progress
was checked. At an early hour this
morning the flames were still casting a
ruddy glare, hut it is believed that the
fire is well under control, and there is
little further danger of its spreading.
A detailed estimate of the losses fol­
lows :
Union elevator, $300,000; grain in
elevator, $950,000;
St. Louis Car
company, barn, $15,000, horses, $16,-
500, feed, $3,000; Waters-Pieree Oil
company, $5,000; seven dwellings, $7,-
000; 20 box cars, $20,000; total, $ 1 ,-
816,500.
The tire originated in a brick engine
house, 80 feet away from the elevator
proper, and was discovered by the
night watchman. Before the arrival of
the fire department, the dames had
spread to the elevator. Assistance was
sent from St. Louis, and the efforts of
the firemen were principally directed
toward preventing the fire from spread­
ing to adjoining elevators and ware­
houses, tlie Union elevator having been
converted into a furnace within a few
minutes after it caught fire.
The heavens were brightly illu m i­
nated and it is estimated that 50,000
persons viewed tlie fire from both banks
of the Mississippi river and the bridge.
Seven dwellings were covered by
burning oil by the explosion of four
tank cars and entirely destroyed. The
occupants, however, were either outside
view ing the conflagration, or were able
to escape before the flames consumed
their h uues.
Washington, Feb. 1.— The senate to­
day passed 30 or 40 miscellaneous bills
and gave several hours to the consid­
eration of the shipping b ill. Among
the hills passed was one providing fot
a delegate in congres» from Alaska and
a number providing for light houses,
revenue cutters and fish culture sta­
P IC K IN G U P TH E V IC T IM S .
tions.
The greater part of the time
devoted to the shipping bill was con­
United States Revenue Cutters Are
sumer! by Penrose in a speech in sup­
Cruising O ff the Straits.
port of the measure.
Victoria, B. C., Feb. 5. — A special
dispatch to the Associated Press from
Wednesday, January 31.
Bamfield tonight says the United States
Washington, Jan. 31.— Discussion of cutter Perry landed a party at Darling
the railroad rate bill continued in the creek today and succeeded in get- iug
house today.
Incident to it two nine bodies from the beach, and also
speeches, the efforts of Campbell, of took off Lieutenant G rom ville and six
Kansas, and Martin, of South Dakota, men let there the previous night. The
took a wide range and swept the hori­ Perry also picked up one male body at
zon of “ trust evils” gen erally.* Bart­ sea, badly decomposed.
The United States steamer Grant also
lett, of Georgia, a minority member of
the committee reporting the bill, made found a male body badly decomposed
a two hoars’ speech, in which he dis and unrecognizable. This is the 30th
The 11 bodies have
cussed the legal and constitutional body recovered.
questions involved and advocated the been landed at Bamfield and w ill be
passage of the hill as a proper remedy shipped to Victoria by a tug leaving to­
for an intolerable condition.
The first morrow morning. A ll the bodies have
speech in opposition to the bill, which now been taken from the shore at Dar­
concluded the day’ s discussion, was ling creek, but the searchers w ill re­
made by Perkins, of New York. He main in the hope that some others may
It is feared, however,
based his opposition to government come ashore.
control of rates on an inherent aversion that those now coming ashore w ill be
to government control of business en­ in such had condition that they w ill be
terprises.
Red tape and fixed condi­ unrecognizable.
The tug VVyadda brought eight bod­
tions, he said were an inseparable part
ies, five that were picked up by the
of government action on any matter.
A hill was passed granting a Federal Perrv on Friday and three taken from
charter to the Carnegie fund for the ad­ t-lie beach at Darling creek, a landing
vancement of teaching. The fund con­ having been effected from the VVyadda
sists of $10,000,000, the income o? this morning in a dory. The majority
which is to furnish pensions to retired are in a badly decomposed condition,
some with parts of the head and skull
educators.
missing.
Both the revenue cutters
W ash irgt'n , Jan. 31.— In the senate Perry and Grant w ill remain cruising
today Patterson btrongly endorsed the near the wreck in search of other bodies
position of the president in Santo Do­ that may he found floating.
mingo and in the matter of the Moroc­
can conference.
He said that he was
B LIZ Z A R D SW E E PS D A K O T A S .
sorrv to differ from his Democratic col­
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leagues, but that he felt it Lis duty to
Mercury
Falls
65 D egrees in 24
do so in these matters.
He also ex­
Hours— Railroads Blockaded.
pressed absolute confidence in the pa­
triotism of the president and in his
Grand Forks, N. D., Feb. 5.— One of
good faith in announcing his determin­ the most severe blizzards of the winter
ation not again to be a candidate for is raging in this state. W hile there
the presidency. The remainder of the has been only a slight snowfall here,
session was devoted to a debate on the the western part of the Ptate lias had
shipping hill.
a general and heavy snowfall.
The
wind has blown a gale all day and
New Naturalization Bill.
night, and no trains have arrived from
Washington, Feb. 6. — The house the west since morning. At midnight
committee on immigration and natural­ the storm, was unabated, and it promis­
ization practically ngreed today on the es to tie up railroad traffic badly.
Howell naturalization bill in a slightly
amended form.
Deadwood, S. D., Feb. 5. — A high
As the bill stands now, it requires wind and driving snow all day has
applicants to file their anplicatinn for broken the summer weather here, the
final citizenship papers 90 days before mercury failing 65 degrees in the last
Tonight the thermometer
the hearing; provides that the court 24 hours.
order shall not issue until 30 days after registers 10 below zero.
the hearing and allows appeals from
court orders.
Many Burned in Mine.
Washington, Feb. 1.— The monthly
statement of the public debt issued to­
day shows that the debt less cash in
the treasury amounts to $901,524,646,
which is a decrease for the .month of
$3,345,072.
Call on Venezuela to Pay.
Washington, F'eb. 5.— W . J. Calhoun,
the president’ s special commissioner in
the asphalt controversy with Venezuela,
has arrived in Washington, and today
called at the State department to con­
sult with Secretary Root in relation to
the presentation of facts in his official
report. The decision of the president
again to demand of the Venezuelan
government a settlement of at least a
part of the asphalt company’ s claims,
it is said, marks the refusal of the
State department to accept the Vene­
zuelan contention.
Genesee, N. Y ., Feb. 5. — Fifty men
were burned, many of them seriously,
in a fire at the Sterling company’ s
mine, near Schuyler today. The ex­
plosion was cauped by an accumulation
of gas in the sandhouse near t*>e sur­
face. The men were coming up the
shaft at the close of today’s work when
the gas was ignited by one " f their
lamps. A blinding explosion followed.
The men were all brought to the sur­
face by rescue parties. The most peri-
otisly injnred include Manager John B.
Knox, Jr.
Will Not Sell Telegraph.
Washington, Feb. 5.— Thfe secretary
of war has turned down ajproposal made
by the local telephone company of Nome
to take over the entire government tele­
graph system of Alaska on cpndition
that it, shall operate the same and
transmit government business free of
cost for the next 25 years. The depart­
ment is not ready to dispose of the gov­
Townsites on Irrigated Land.
Washington, Feb. 5.— The senate ir ­ ernment telegraph system, but when it
rigation committee today ordered a decides to take this step, w ill not sell
favorable report on Sena’ or Hevbtirn’ s it for less than its actual value.
bill providing for the «sgreg^tinn of 160
Many New Rural Route*.
acre townsites on government irrigation
tracts and requiring the secretary of the
W asbingtor, Feb. 5. — According to
interior to sell water rights in such the report of Fourth Assistant Post­
towns for ronnicipsl and domestic pur­ master General De Graw, 271 rural de­
pose«, such water rights to be bought livery routes were established daring
and controlled by the towns.
The bill January. Of the 3,468 applications
also authorises the sale o f water in for route* now pending, 22 have been
toans for power pnbpoeee.
assigned for establishment.
1 FLEECE INDIANS
a
Lawyers Lobby io Get Big Tee
for Sale of Land.
J
H
HITCHCOCK STANDS IN THE HAT
Opening
ot
South
H alf o f Colville
Reservation Mav Be Defeated
by Crooked Scheme.
Washington, Feb. 3.— An attempt of
certain lawyers to hold up the C olville
Indians for $150,000 cash is apt to di-
feat the bill now pending in congress to
open the south half of their reservation
and pay the C olville Indians $1,600,-
000 for the land which they relinquish­
ed in the north half of the reservation
ten years ago.
These lawyers have
been itching for many years to get a
large slice of money which they believ­
ed the government would pay the In ­
dians, but so far have not succeeded,
because congress has never made an ap­
propriation to pay for the C olville land.
Back in 1894, Ac.ing Secretary of the
Interior Simms approved a contract be­
tween the Indians and Marsh & Gor­
don, under which the latter were to se­
cure the passage of a bill through con-
giess paying
Indians $1,500,000,
the lawyers, in turn, to receive a fee
amounting to 10 per cent, but this con­
tract expired in ten years, and, when
the lawyers sought to have it renewed,
Secretary Hitchcock put his foot down
and refused to permit the Indians to
become involved in any such deal.
Ex-Senator Marian Butler, oi North
Carolina, and Hugh Gordon, of the old
law firm, are now lobbying before con­
gress in behalf of securing an appro­
priation of $1,500,000, and then pull­
ing down a fat fee of 10 percent of that
amount. Mr. Butler became an at
torney in the case by assignment, and
has been pusy on the C olville b ill for
a year or two, though not invited to
take a hand by any member of the
Washington congressional delegation.
Only last year Mr. Butler appeared
before the ssnate committe in advocacy
of this bill, ande, when questioned, as
to his rights in the premises, declared
that lie and other lawyers were acting
under an approved contract with the
Indians. Yet at the same time he
made that statement, the contract had
been void for more than a year.
Mr. Butler, it is learned, takes the
posi'ion that the old contracts are still
in force, notwithstanding that they
have not been renewed by Mr. H itch­
cock.
S O O N T O T R Y FRAU D S.
Heney Says He Will Prosecute
mann Among the First.
H er­
San Francisco, Feb. 8. — Francis J.
Heney is engaged in mapping out
plans for the continuation of the land
fraud prosecnions in Portland.
F’or
three d a y B he has denied fiimeelf to
callers at his office, bnt today stated
that he had not completed his arrange­
ments. He is confident, however, tliat
he w ill lie aide to reach all the offend­
ers wEio have not yet lieen brought to
justice. The disappearance of 8. A. I).
Pnter, Horace M cKinley, Marie Ware
M cKinley and Emma L. Watson does
not worry him greatly.
“ I can get along without the four
people mentioned in probably every
pending case except one,” remarked
Mr. Heney today, “ but I believe we
will locate most of them.
I know
where Marie Ware M cKinley is. She
is in San Francisco, and I have every
reason to believe does not intend to re­
fuse to lie a witness again.
I under­
stand Horace G. M cKinley lias gone to
the Orient, deeerting his wife, Marie
Ware M cK in ley.”
Mr. Heney added that he w ill, in a
day or two, bs aide to announce his
plans.
It is known that, while in
Washington, he promised President
Roosevlt that the case against Con­
gressman Binger Hermann would he
one of the first taken up.
o f different kinds, and small cities with
shoe buttons.
They learned the school geography
lessons on tills snow map In hnlf the
1 usual time and with much more pleas­
ure. Whenever one lienrd a new place
mentioned he put It Into tlie country
where It belonged, and one morning
1 Lowell hurried out before breakfast
to make the 1’hillppine Islands, which
' bad hetui forgotten.
They sent chip steamers across the
ocean, worked on the Panama Canal,
explored the frozen north, and wher­
ever, all over the world, a war was
going on, they planted a small red
flag on that s|H»t on the snow map.—
Youth’s Companion.
,
o st
to
M n k e n Sit -un i
K n iclue.
Au easily constructed steam engine
may lie made by any boy with very
simple materials. An old baking-pow­
der box will do for the holler. Fasten
its lid to It with shellac varnish, ami
punch two holes in the side o f ttie box,
one ubout the size o f a pin hole, the
other as large as a slate pencil. The
larger hole must be fitted with a wood­
en plug or a cork.
Your boiler Is now complete, hut It
must be fastened at Its two ends be­
tween two upright posts that ar£ at­
tached to a baseboard, so that the two
holes w ill be a the top o f the holler.
The side posts should rise nt least two
Inches liigher than the top of the holl­
er, and should be connected at the top
by a piece of stout wire, which will
serve as an axle to a stiff wheel, like
a water-wheel, or the paddle o f a
steamboat.
This wheel is made by taking a large
pill liox, making slits In Its stiles, and
slipping in pieces of stiff cardboard,
which project at least half an Inch
on each side of the box. When these
H o lm e
Made
of
Paper.
W e have all heard o f the Ice palaces
o f Canada, hut here Is an account o f
a paper house, built In the town o f
Savlnoroska, in Russia. The struc­
ture Is made throughout o f blocks o f
papier-mache, even the foundation and
roof being of that material. So, too,
are the chimneys, although the paper
used In their construction was first
mingled with a fireproof material. The
house, which Is o f considerable ex­
tent, and will, In the opinion of Its
architect, outlast such as are built of
stone and brick, was erected at a cost
or more than forty thousand dollars.
As
to
“ G a llery
G od ».*’
Back In old London the Drury Lane
Theater, a venerable playhouse, gave
an origin to the phrase. The celling
or dome was painted in representation
o f the sky. The nrtlst placed In this
celestial setting numerous cupids nnd
clouds. The gallery o f the theater was
built Just below this ceiling, nnd to
persons seated below the occupants o f
the upper tier looked to be part o f the
heavenly ornamentation. In time these
spectators were referred to as “ sit­
ting among the gods, and finally were
dubbed “ gods."
E LE C TR IC P L A N T FOR P E A T .
A H O U K -U A U E i : \ a l N E .
are In place, fill the box with damp
sand to steady tlie slips and keep them
from moving, and then put on the lid
of the box and fasten it by glue so that
It w ill not open
Arrange this wheel
ou the w ire axle so that one side of it
conies directly above the pinhole In the
boiler.
Now remove the plug from the larg­
er hole, and fill the boiler with water;
then close It, and light an nlcohol
lamp under the boiler. When the wa­
ter bolls, tlie steam w ill Issue from the
pinhole In the boiler, and striking tlie
¡Middles o f the wheel, will cause It to
spin very rapidly.
A grooved wooden wheel mny bo
glued Jo one side of the paddle wheel,
and a string run around the groove
may be connected with any o f the
toys that are to lie get In motion by
miniature steam engines. You may use
for the grooved wheel a small spool
such as buttonhole silk is wound ou.
This engine will serve for your
amusement as well as a purchased one,
ami an ingehlous hoy can Improve on
it and elaborate It ns much as he likes.
— People’s Home Journal.
The
M o o n 'n
W iv e*.
In Bulawayo, South Africa, the na­
tives have a curious belief concerning
the moon. These children o f nature
say the man In the moon has two
wives, one o f whom treats him well
and the other badly. During the first
quarter he goes over the hills to the
Zambesi and lives with his first wife,
whom they call Keep the Door Open.
She feeds him so well thnt he gets
fat and full and round. But on Ids
way hack he stays nt the hut o f the
second w ife— Shut t «-D o o r Tight.—
who starves and Ill-treats him, so It Is
n very thiu and woe begone moon that
finally returns to start his travels
afresh.
A
Snow
Map.
Lowell nnd Caroline live in one house
and Elsie und Lloyd in the next, and
the four ¡day together In the hlg hack
yard that stretches behind Ixitli houses.
One day, when the snow was soft
nnd sticky, Lowell, who Is on Europe
and Aslu In geography, fancied a spot
of untrnmplod snow looked like the
continent o f Euro|>e, nnd he lx-gan to
simpe It more perfectly.
lie told Caroline If she wished thnt
D jf.cit Nearly Wiped Out.
she might make an Africa to go with
Washington, Feb. 3. — The monthly
the Euro¡»e nnd Asia lie was mnklng.
statement of the government receipts
Caroline hurried Into the house after
and expenditures issued today shows a
her geography, for she did not remem­
condition of the treasury which is emi­
nently satisfactory to the authorities. ber all about Africa.
Elsie chose to make a map o f North
One year ago today there was a deficit
of over $38,500,000, which ha« now America, and said she would help Lloyd
been reduced to less than $3,400 000, | with South America, for lie had Just
with the prospect that this amount will liegun geography, and was not yet out
be entirely wiped ont within the next of the United States.
30 days. This improved condition is | The eastern hemisphere Is the hard­
due almost entirely to a Urge increare est to do, because it Is so Irregular; hut
in customs and internal revenue r e -1 lAiwell and Caroline modeled It In the
ce'pts.
damp snow, and Lowell helped Elsie
and Lloyd.
Imports Double in Seven Years.
The next day they added Greenland
Washington, Feb. 3. — The imports anil Iceland and Australia nnd Jnpnn,
into the United States have practically ami other Islands. Another dny they
doubled in value in the last seven mndp mountains and mountain ranges,
years, according to a bulletin issued hy and since Lloyd had learned nhout vol­
the bureau uf Statistics in the depart­ canoes, he was allowed to make those
ment of Commerce and Labor, lu the nml to sprinkle ashes on the tops. They
calendar year 1905 the im port« agg'e- began to find geography more Interest­
gated
in
value 11.179 000.000. a« ing than all their other studies.
against $635.000.000 in the calendar
When a snap o f colder weather came,
year 1898. The increase in importa­ the children filled the rivers nnd lakes
tions is distributed through all classes
with water which froze; nnd since
and all articles of merchandise.
they had made the* lnnd high, they ac­
tually flooded that part o f the yard
Military Reserves ih Hawaii.
one night, and the next morning the
Washington, Feb 3 — The president continents stood out o f frozen oceans.
by proclamation has set aside < erf,ain
Bays nnd gulfs snd straits glistened,
lands at or near Diamond Head snd at peninsulas ran out in the le« ooean,
Knpikipikio and at Punchbowl H ill, in and the islands were real Islands.
the territory of Hawaii, for m ilitary
Although the snow wss now too hard
purposes, until it can lie determined
to handle and model, the children could
by actual survey what portions of the
mark the boundaries o f the countries
land described w ill he required for
I with twigs, put In capitals with brass
permanent m ilitery reservations.
1 buttons, large cities with big buttons
l ’ ro t l n e t o f H o l t « D l i l n O - s r a O d ,
I t e t H l n s II t-nlitiK P o w e r .
hat
An electric process for the treatment
o f peat has lately been adopted In Eng­
land at the Johnston & Phillips works.
The ¡>ent Is transformed Into n hard
combustible, which Is well adapted for
use under boilers. The operation 1»
said to last two nnd n half hours, and
the material costs less than ordinary
coaL The combustible which is thus
produced has a high calorific value nnd
gives scarcely any smoke.
A plant on a largo scale Is to tie In­
stalled In Ireland and If successful It
w ill be an Important move In the direc­
tion o f utilizing |H‘at ns fuel under tlio
host conditions. In tlie present pro­
cess the peat as It comes from the bogs
Is plnced In cylinders, which. revolve
at a high speed, while a set o f air fans
Is used to drive off the water, which
forms about 80 per cent of tlie total.
A set o f electrodes is placed In the
cylinders
nnd
connected with n
dynamo.
The circuit Is completed
through the mass o f the pent between
the electrodes. The resistance which
the peat offers to the current onuses a
considerable bent and the latter break«
up the pent nnd pulverizes It. hut with­
out causing It to lose any of Its prop­
erties.
In order to Increase the conductivity
o f some kinds of (lent they add cer­
tain cbemicnl products.
A fter this
process the pent Is trented by a set o f
kneading rollers, which give It n plastic
consistency so ns to enable It to take
nny desired form. From here It passes
to an nutomntlc press which forms It
Into briquettes. It Is then ready fo r
use nnd Is taken to the storeroom.
It Is to lie remarked thnt although
the passage o f the current through the
¡icnt gives rise to a heating effect the
results obtained In this way are quite
different Trom those which another
method o f heating would produce. By
fire heat the particles o f the iient lose
their different constituent matters,
while the electric heating onuses them
to disintegrate, thus freeing thel” cel­
lular mnterlnl nnd distributing tt
throughout .the entire mass o f the pent.
Thus all tins particles become ndap’ed
for combustion.
To obtain a harder mnterlnl the d ’e-
npgregnted I«‘at Is given
a larger
treatment with the current. The nlr Is
kept out by a tight cover, and the mass
Is then treated with an adhesive solu­
tion so ns to unite tlie particles. The
ov|iorlmentH have been ninde with the
precess on n large scale nnd nt a greut
expense, nnd It Is said to have tieen
greatly Improved In the details and enu
now be applied commercially.
K m I r
W it r ii 1 ii k .
Henry had lieen so continuously and
persistently naughty that, says the
New York World, his aunt, who had
charge o f him In Ills mother’s absence,
did not know what to do with him. In
despair she snld, weakly :
“ I f yop w ill not behave, I shall put
you In one o f grandpapa’s hen-coope.’’
“ W ell,” snld Henry, sturdily, “ before
you put me In, I want to tell you that I
w ill not lay any eggs.”
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nnd
*‘ I > u o k « * d . ’ *
Tess- Yes, 1 saw May Caddie at the
reception last night.
Jess— W hy, that’s strange! She told
me to-day that she didn’t see you
there, although she was looking for
you.
Tess— O f course, stupid! Didn’t I
Just tell you 1 saw her?— Philadelphia
Press.
A girl w ill believe anything a man
tells her during courtship, hut after
mnrriage— well, that’s another story.
I f a sick man can’t keep anything
else on his stomach hs should trv a
porous plaster.
There Is often a superior
an Inferior person.
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